fortawesome/font-awesome vs lucide-icons/lucide
lucide-icons/lucide shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, lucide shows healthier maintenance signals than font-awesome. lucide rates Healthy overall while font-awesome rates Mixed. font-awesome last saw a commit 2 months ago with 5+ active contributors, while lucide was committed to 2 weeks ago with 30+ active contributors. Both use the MIT license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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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
lucide-icons/lucide
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ✓Used by 1 trusted project: shadcn-ui/ui
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓30+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 33% of recent commits)
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| font-awesome | lucide | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 76,925 | 24,228 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 19d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 315 | 523 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 42% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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