fortawesome/font-awesome vs tabler/tabler-icons
tabler/tabler-icons shows stronger signals overall
As of September 2026, tabler-icons shows healthier maintenance signals than font-awesome. tabler-icons rates Healthy overall while font-awesome rates Mixed. font-awesome last saw a commit 2 months ago with 5+ active contributors, while tabler-icons was committed to 5 days ago with 12+ 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
tabler/tabler-icons
Healthy across all four use cases
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.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 86% of recent commits
- ⚠1 moderate-severity advisory on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓MIT licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| font-awesome | tabler-icons | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 76,925 | 21,673 |
| Last commit | 2mo ago | 5d ago |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Open issues | 315 | 105 |
| Has tests | No | ✓ |
| Has CI | No | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 0% | 95% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 1 moderate · 0 low |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Mixed signals | Healthy signals |
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