// COMPARISON

Lucide Icons vs Font Awesome (2026)

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

Lucide Icons

1,400

icons

⭐ 12,000 stars

VS

Font Awesome

2,058

icons

⭐ 76,500 stars

FEATURE COMPARISON

FEATURE

Lucide Icons

Font Awesome

Total Icons

1,400

★2,058

GitHub Stars

12,000

★76,500

License

ISC

Mixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

TypeScript

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Tree Shakable

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Figma Plugin

✓ Yes

✓ Yes

Styles

outline

solid, regular, light, thin, duotone, brands

Frameworks

react, vue, svelte, nextjs

★react, vue, angular, svelte

CHOOSE LUCIDE ICONS IF...

→Actively maintained

→Consistent style

→TypeScript support

→Tree-shakable

CHOOSE FONT AWESOME IF...

→Extensive Library

→Infinite Scalability

→CSS Customization

→Ease of Integration

→Accessibility-Minded

Lucide Icons

npm install lucide-react

Font Awesome

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