feathericons/feather vs fortawesome/font-awesome
Both showing Mixed signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, feather and font-awesome both show mixed maintenance signals. feather last saw a commit 1 year ago with 29+ active contributors, while font-awesome last saw a commit 2 months ago with 5+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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feathericons/feather
Stale — last commit 2y ago
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
last commit was 2y ago; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10
- ⚠Stale — last commit 2y ago
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 56% of recent commits
- ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓29+ active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: 1 commit in the last 180 days
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
fortawesome/font-awesome
Mixed signals — read the receipts
no tests detected in the complete Git tree; no CI workflows detected…
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
no CI workflows detected; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 57% of recent commits
- ⚠No CI workflows detected
- ⚠No tests detected in the complete Git tree
- ✓Last commit 2mo ago
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
What would improve this?
- •Use as dependency Mixed to Healthy if: add a test suite
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| feather | font-awesome | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 25,994 | 76,925 |
| Last commit | 1y ago | 2mo ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 510 | 315 |
| Has tests | ✓ | No |
| Has CI | ✓ | No |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Mixed signals |
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