Ant Design Icons vs Font Awesome
Ant Design Icons
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Font Awesome
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| Figure | Ant Design Icons | Font Awesome |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $4/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 4 |
| Spec score · Icon Libraries | 8.7 (#2) | 9.2 (#1) |
| Custom icons | The docs describe custom icons using a React component, iconfont.cn SVG sprites, or SVG imports through webpack or Vite. | Pro Kits allow users to upload custom icons and use them alongside Font Awesome icons. |
| Customization | The API supports rotating and animating icons, setting two-tone colors, and using custom icon components. | The web styling toolkit supports sizing, rotation, animation, stacking, duotone, and other icon styling options. |
| Support | The Ant Design docs link to GitHub issues, discussions, Stack Overflow, and SegmentFault for help. | Font Awesome says every paid plan includes priority support from real humans. |
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In their own words
Ant Design Icons
Ant Design Icons provides semantic vector graphics for interfaces, with 498 icons in outlined, filled, and two-tone styles. Icons render as SVG and accept styling properties such as size and color; two-tone icons can use one or two specified colors. The API also supports rotation, animation, and custom icon components. Packages are listed for Vanilla, React, React Native, Angular, and Vue. Developers can integrate their own SVGs through webpack with @svgr/webpack or Vite with vite-plugin-svgr, or use SVG sprite symbols generated by iconfont.cn projects. The React package can be installed with npm, yarn, pnpm, or Bun, and the documentation recommends matching @ant-design/icons 6.x with antd 6.x. SVG icons support offline use without a CDN-hosted font file. Importing the full set can add bundle size, so the documentation points to importing icons as needed. The project repository identifies its license as MIT; commercial use is allowed. It is free, with a free plan and no free trial. The project was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
Font Awesome
Font Awesome is an icon library and toolkit for adding icons to software and design projects. Its maker lists more than 60,000 icons and over 30 styles; the Font Awesome 7 page lists 65,928 Pro icons and 2,163 Free icons. Web Kits can add icons through an embed code, and icons are also available as downloads or packages. Styling options include sizing, rotation, animation, stacking, duotone, counters and transforms. Pro Kits support uploaded custom icons alongside the library. Documentation covers Vue, React, Ember, Angular, SCSS, WordPress and Squarespace, plus desktop design programs including Figma, Sketch and Illustrator. Developers can use JavaScript and GraphQL APIs, and can host the library themselves using web fonts or SVGs. The Free plan includes 2,163 icons, one Kit and 10,000 pageviews. Starter costs $4 a month, billed $48 per year, billed annually, and is CDN-only without downloads or a perpetual license. Pro+ icons are available in Kit packages, not other packages.