MaterialDesign-Webfont VS material-icons-font

Compare MaterialDesign-Webfont vs material-icons-font and see what are their differences.

MaterialDesign-Webfont

@mdi/font Dist for Material Design Icons. (by Templarian)

material-icons-font

Custom version of Google Material Icons font. This version does not use ligatures, so it is compatible with older browsers. Supports two tone icons. (by material-icons)
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MaterialDesign-Webfont material-icons-font
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4.2 0.0
3 months ago about 1 year ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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MaterialDesign-Webfont

Posts with mentions or reviews of MaterialDesign-Webfont. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-16.
  • Icon pack for shortcut button?
    3 projects | /r/tradfri | 16 Mar 2021
  • AskEmacs: How to use Material Design (community) icons?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 7 Mar 2021
    The 'material design' community has designed a large set of visually consistent icons (https://materialdesignicons.com/), and I'd like to use them in Emacs. Unfortunately, I am not able to do so. The codepoints (say 󰱐) appear as 'tofu', whatever I try. Emacs is able to find the font this way: (list-fonts (font-spec :family "Material Design Icons")) evaluates to \#

material-icons-font

Posts with mentions or reviews of material-icons-font. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.
  • Let's finally build our app
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2023
    Download the fonts here and place them in the fonts folder.
  • Icon pack for shortcut button?
    3 projects | /r/tradfri | 16 Mar 2021
    I haven't done this but if you need quick symbols, get the free version of fontawesome (https://fontawesome.com/how-to-use/on-the-desktop/setup/getting-started) or the Google Material font (https://github.com/material-icons/material-icons-font/tree/master/font) - only to name two.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing MaterialDesign-Webfont and material-icons-font you can also consider the following projects:

emacs-svg-icon - An emacs library to create SVG icons on the fly

node-sonos-http-api - An HTTP API bridge for Sonos easing automation. Hostable on any node.js capable device, like a raspberry pi or similar.

MaterialDesign-Font - Distribution Repo for the TTF font

clinic-calculator

fluentui-system-icons - Fluent System Icons are a collection of familiar, friendly and modern icons from Microsoft.