Icon Font Tools

The icon font tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Build & Framework.

Tools tracked
29
in Build & Framework
Sites
427,284
using at least one icon font tool
Above 1%
3
tools on more than 1% of them

What we found

  1. Font Awesome runs on more than half of the sites using an icon font tool (92%), 13 times as many sites as Bootstrap Icons.
  2. Only 3 of the 29 icon font tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
  3. Among sites launched in September, Iconscout rose to #10 from #12 in August.

The leading icon font tools

# Movement Tool Country Share Bar Sites 90 days
1 – Font Awesome Icon font and SVG library widely used for UI iconography on the web. 92% 394,886
2 – Bootstrap Icons Free, high-quality icon library from the Bootstrap team 7.3% 31,317
3 – Iconify Open-source icon framework with 200+ icon sets. 1.0% 4,396
4 – Ionicons Open-source icon library from the Ionic Framework team. 0.6% 2,459
5 – Material Design Icons Icon font and CDN for the Material Design Icons set. 0.3% 1,295
6 ▲1 Flaticon Free icon library and design assets marketplace from Freepik. 0.2% 813
7 ▼1 Icons8 Icon and graphic asset library. 0.2% 680
8 – Hugeicons Customisable icon library for designers and developers. <0.1% 259
9 – Boxicons Open-source web icon set and font for use in web projects. <0.1% 246
10 – Unicons Open-source icon library by IconScout <0.1% 240

Share is of the 427,284 sites using an icon font tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 29.

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Recently launched products using icon font tools

Product Launched
JuicySMS 19 Oct 2026
Panda's Notebook 19 Oct 2026
Weaver 19 Oct 2026
Geobroo - Ai Seo Marketing 19 Oct 2026
Termstead 19 Oct 2026
JAC Motors 19 Oct 2026

Often built with

Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).