When comparing Font Awesome vs OpenToonz, the Slant community recommends Font Awesome for most people. In the question“What are the best graphic design tools for marketers?” Font Awesome is ranked 7th while OpenToonz is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Font Awesome is:
Font Awesome 5.1 offers 1264 free and 2068 payed icons.
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Pros
Pro 3332 icons to choose from
Font Awesome 5.1 offers 1264 free and 2068 payed icons.
Pro Large variety of icons
There is a wide range of web-related icons to choose from. Categories include web-application, directional, transportation and brand icons. See the full list of icons here.
Pro Easy to use
Pro MIT licence for the code
Pro Screen reader compatible
Other font icons have been known to have issues with this.
Pro Font Aweseome 5 is here with over 929 icons and counting
The Pro version is very reasonable and gives you access to 2316 icons and counting. Across 3 weights! Very Nice!
Pro Designed to be used with Bootstrap
Font Awesome can be used with any framework, however it's especially easy to use with Bootstrap.
Pro Continuously updated
Pro Can employ tree shaking to not bundle unused icons
Pro IE7 support with older versions
IE7 support has been removed from Font Awesome 4.4.0. However you can still use an older version for IE7 support.
Pro Customizable icons through stacking
Icons in Font Awesome can be restyled by stacking different borders and background to modify their meaning. For example, any icon can be turned into a bullet point by stacking it on a circle, or converted into its negative by stacking a red cancel icon on top of it.
Pro Used in many movies/TV shows
It was used by Futurama and Studio Ghibli.
Pro Easy to learn
With a quick 20 minute tutorial, you can get off and running easily.
Cons
Con Too expensive
The icons I need are in the pay plan.
Con You will never use all icons
This means you'll have a lot of useless data (unused icons) being load into your application.
Con Font Awesome slows webpages
Con Crashes a ton
If you are going to use this for a project, make sure you save frequently.
