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Add to SafariWhen comparing Font Awesome vs PosterMyWall, 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 PosterMyWall is ranked 12th. 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 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 Screen reader compatible
Other font icons have been known to have issues with this.
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 Great tool for beginners
Unlike many other softwares, PosterMyWall has a less steep learning curve and designing is made even easier with a huge gallery of free customizable templates.
Pro Available online
Requires no download prior to using, available on your browser. Usable on your desktop pc, laptop, tablet and mobile.
Pro Simplistic Interface
Very easy to learn.
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 Can't use offline
Since it is an online based program you will not be able to use it offline which is bad if you don't have internet, travel on airplanes a lot, don't want to pay extra for internet or have other reasons for not having internet available.
