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Font Awesome vs Typekit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Font Awesome as "The internet's most popular icon toolkit". You can get vector icons and social logos on your website with it. It is a font that's made up of symbols, icons, or pictograms that you can use in a webpage, just like a font. On the other hand, Typekit is detailed as "An online service offering high-quality fonts". It is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.
Font Awesome and Typekit can be categorized as "Fonts" tools.
Font Awesome is an open source tool with 60.6K GitHub stars and 10.2K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Font Awesome's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Font Awesome has a broader approval, being mentioned in 110 company stacks & 85 developers stacks; compared to Typekit, which is listed in 11 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
Pros of Font Awesome
- CDN8
- CSS Styling7
- Open source6
- Easy Upgrades0
- Auto-accessibility (A11y)0
- API0