Font Awesome Kits are here to save the day! Fast, flexible, friendly, and full of icons—They're the personal CDN you've been waiting for.
A Font Awesome Kit is the place to manage all your icons for a project. With the power of a Kit, you get the easiest way to use Font Awesome icons, great performance, easy customization, and you can even upload your own icons!
It comes with amazing features like:
Our Kits service gets icons into your web projects with just one line of code. Just create, add the Kit embed code to your project, and you're set to get the icons flowing!
You can access Kits in your account menu or from your account page. From the Kits page, you can easily create a new kit and follow the steps to get it set up in your project.
By default, a new kit is set up with these settings:
| Kit Feature | Description | Default Setting |
|---|---|---|
| Kit Name | An easily identifiable name for your kit (maybe use a project or site name?) | The Kit's unique ID |
| Icon Set | Select Free or Pro icons | Free for free users, Pro for Pro users |
| Subset | Choose whether you want to use Auto-Subsetting or manage it yourself with custom subsetting | Auto-Subsetting |
| Version of Font Awesome | Select the version of Font Awesome you want to load | Latest (auto-updates to whatever the latest release is) |
| Tech | Choose the type of tech you want to use to render your icons, Web Fonts or SVG+JS | Web Fonts |
| Limit Domains | Set which domains are allowed to use this kit and prevent unauthorized use of your Kit embed code | Open (any domain can use) |
| Earlier version compatability | Enables old version 4 or 5 icon names or references | On |
| Conflict Detection | Temporarily detect conflicts with other versions of Font Awesome loading in your project | Off |
We automatically generate a random string for your kit's name but you can name it something memorable, like your project's name, what you'll use the kit for, or your favorite Star Wars character. Visit the settings for your Kit if you would like to make adjustments to suit your project.
From your kit's detail page, you can copy the JS Kit embed code. Then just add it to the <head> of each template or page of your project that you want to use Font Awesome icons.
For those of you who prefer no JavaScript for "reasons", you can select the option to use a CSS Kit embed code which will load Font Awesome strictly through CSS. You'll need to set your Kit to use Version 6 with Web Fonts, and make sure you're okay with the pros and cons:
| Benefits of CSS-only Kits | Cons of CSS-only Kits |
|---|---|
| No JavaScript | Blocks the page from loading until the icons are ready |
| No page repaints or jumping UI |
Take the power of kits into your hand… Head over to Kits and get started!
Create a KitIf you don't want us to host your Kit, you can download any Pro Kit and host it yourself (or use the icons in your desktop apps). Downloading is available on Kits set to Version 6.4 and higher (or Latest). Then on the Set Up tab in your Kit, you'll see the options for downloading.
And if you have custom icons in your Kit, they will be included in your download in all the formats, just like the Font Awesome ones.
| Folders & Files | What They Are |
|---|---|
css/ | CSS files for using with Web Fonts |
js/ | Icons and utility scripts for each style |
less/ | Less-based icons and utiliies |
LICENSE.txt | License detailing permitted use of Pro Icons |
metadata/ | Metadata about the icons |
scss/ | SCSS-based utiliies to use with Web Fonts |
sprites/ | Icons as SVG sprites |
svgs/ | Icons as SVGs |
webfonts/ | Icons as Web Fonts to be used with CSS |
Once you've downloaded the Kit, you can follow the instructions to Host Yourself - Web Fonts or Host Yourself - SVG+JS.
If you have set your Kit to Custom Subsetting, your Kit will include ONLY the icons you've selected plus any custom icons you've uploaded. That means:
Once you've downloaded the Kit, you can follow the instructions to Host Yourself - Web Fonts or Host Yourself - SVG+JS.
Get Up to Speed on Subsetting with Font AwesomePerformance is one of those things you don't care about until you do. And luckily, we already took care of that for you!
If you're using a Pro Kit, Auto-subsetting takes just the icons you're using in your project and creates a subset on the fly - whether you're using Web Fonts or SVG icons. So your Kit only loads the icons you need and gives you the great performance auto-magically.
Or you can custom subset if you want to take full control.
A pageview is counted whenever your Kit is loaded on a page. We count pageviews per month, and they renew on the first of each month.
Every Font Awesome subscription comes with a number of Kit pageviews which are counted across all Kits. (Free accounts a limited number of pageviews as well!) You can check your Kit pageviews usage in your Account.
Specifying a domain can help you control where and how you're using Font Awesome Kits which helps avoid unexpected extreme usage.
If you're seeing more pageviews than you expected, you might want to add domains to limit which sites can use your Kit:
Go to your Kit settings and scroll down to the Domains section.
Click "Add a Domain" and you can enter a domain you'll use the Kit on. (You can use wildcards to add subdomains or alternate endings - there's a link to the full details right there next to the setting.)
Click the plus button to lock it in, and repeat to add more. If you need to remove one, hover over it and you'll have the option to delete.
If you go over your pageview limit, you may have to pay overage fees. Or if you know you'll regularly want lots of pageviews, you can subscribe to a Pro Max plan.
Using a Kit can handle a lot of the hassle of setting up and using icons in a project. But there are some cases when you may want to reach for a different tool. Here are some scenarios with recommendations…
| Scenario | Use Kits? | |
|---|---|---|
| On the Web (Hosted) | Get instant access to all icons and instant updates without worrying about hosting | |
| On the Web (Self-Hosted) | Pro only: Download a Kit and host the production-ready web files yourself | |
| With SCSS/Less Preprocessors | Pro only: Download a Kit and add the SCSS or Less files into your styling compile | |
| On the Desktop | Pro only: Download a kit and use its SVGs and ligature-based fonts in apps like Figma or Adobe Creative Suite | |
| With WordPress | Use our official Kit-powered WordPress plugin or use a hosted Kit | |
| Other CMSs | Use a hosted Kit | |
| With JS Frameworks | Use our official React, Vue, and other JS Framework components | |
| With Python or Django | Use our official Python/Django package | |
| With Ruby on Rails | Use our official gem |