Font-Awesome vs obsidian-icons-plugin

Our great sponsors

SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App

InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale

WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS

Our great sponsors

Font-Awesome		obsidian-icons-plugin
	Project
211	Mentions	2
72,999	Stars	187
0.2%	Growth	-
5.0	Activity	1.8
24 days ago	Latest Commit	about 3 years ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Font-Awesome

Posts with mentions or reviews of Font-Awesome. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-01.

Creating Gradient Buttons with Animated Text using CSS
1 project | dev.to | 4 Mar 2024

the i element is the icon of the button, I'm using fontawesome.com for the icon, the class fa-apple retrives Apple icon for us.
How to build a Good Portfolio Website - My Approach.
2 projects | dev.to | 1 Mar 2024

Icons: Fontawesome Development: HTML, SCSS, JavaScript Deployment: Github + Netlify
Free Icons for your reactjs and web applications
4 projects | dev.to | 28 Dec 2023

1. Font Awesome
Adding Symbols in text.
1 project | /r/FoundryVTT | 7 Dec 2023

For generic icons (i.e. you just need a d6 and not a system-specific d6 option), Foundry has Font Awesome which are easy to search, then copy and insert, and always look good inline.
[Accessibility] Points to Consider When Adding aria-label to Icon Font Elements
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Dec 2023

The following is an example of defining Font Awesome:
A Developer’s Guide to Implementing a Design System (Part 1)
2 projects | dev.to | 8 Nov 2023

Of course, we have many different ways of solving this problem. Some of the most common include pre-existing third-party icon libraries (such as Font Awesome), icons bundled into a third-party component library (like the Kendo UI Icons), or a completely custom set of icons designed and maintained by your design team. Obviously, going 100% custom will require more work (on both the design and dev side), but might be worth it to achieve a truly unique look – or if the UI will require icons for uncommon symbols or concepts.
GitHub Issue: Add Substack Logo to Font-Awesome
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023
Crafting A Minimalist Portfolio Website with SvelteKit and Pico CSS
9 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2023

The featured GitHub projects are dynamically retrieved through the power of the GitHub GraphQL API. The blog posts are seamlessly pulled in using the Dev.to API. Additionally, Redis is used to cache the GitHub and Dev.to API responses for 1 hour to reduce the number of API calls. Icons are provided by Font Awesome through their kit from the CDN. I've also implemented the new View Transition API feature to enhance the user experience.
Does Neocities support fontawesome?
1 project | /r/neocities | 10 Oct 2023

Firstly, unlike the name https://fontawesome.com/ isn't for fonts.
Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023

obsidian-icons-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of obsidian-icons-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-26.

how to put icons in file names of .md files?
2 projects | /r/ObsidianMD | 26 Jun 2021

It's possible to add icons to your headers using the Community Icon plugin by Camillo Visini (https://github.com/visini/obsidian-icons-plugin ) it supports Remix (http://remixicon.com ) and Font Awesome (https://fontawesome.com ) icons, roughly 3700 total icons between the two.
Is there a way to have a note after a checked checkbox that has no line-through
1 project | /r/ObsidianMD | 14 Apr 2021

For the icons you can install the Icons plugin then set a keyboard short cut to search and insert icons.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Font-Awesome and obsidian-icons-plugin you can also consider the following projects:

heroicons-ui

obsidian-iconize - Simply add icons to anything you want in Obsidian.

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

obsidian-todoist-plugin - Materialize Todoist tasks in Obsidian notes

feather - Simply beautiful open-source icons

obsidian-spaced-repetition - Fight the forgetting curve by reviewing flashcards & entire notes on Obsidian.md

heroicons - A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

obsidian-git - Backup your Obsidian.md vault with git

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar

obsidian-kindle-plugin - Sync your Kindle notes and highlights directly into your Obsidian vault

endeavouros-i3wm-setup - The beloved EndeavourOS default i3 (has gaps) theme and setup dotfile repo

juggl - An interactive, stylable and expandable graph view for Obsidian. Juggl is designed as an advanced 'local' graph view, where you can juggle all your thoughts with ease.