// COMPARISON

Heroicons vs Font Awesome (2026)

A detailed comparison of Heroicons and Font Awesome covering icon count, TypeScript support, bundle size, framework compatibility and more.

Heroicons

292

icons

⭐ 21,000 stars

VS

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Heroicons

Font Awesome

Total Icons

292

★2,058

GitHub Stars

21,000

★76,500

License

MIT

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

TypeScript

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Tree Shakable

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Figma Plugin

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Styles

outline, solid, mini

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

Frameworks

react, vue, nextjs

★react, vue, angular, svelte

CHOOSE HEROICONS IF...

→Made by Tailwind team

→Multiple styles

→High quality

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

Heroicons

npm install @heroicons/react

Font Awesome

npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons @fortawesome/react-fontawesome