No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
fontawesomefree has 196K monthly downloads and 77K GitHub stars. Version 6.6.0, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained, last released in Jul 2024.
It is used by 11 tracked packages, including clinicedc, pywaffle and bigsansar.
GitHub topics include fontawesome, icons and webfont.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 709 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
98
Adoption
62
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
195,925
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
195,925
Stars
76,715
Stars per 1k downloads
391.55
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
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Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
6,251
Month daily avg
6,531
Momentum
-4.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
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Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
https://fontawesome.com/license/free
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
•
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
720 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
4.3
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
•
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
28
Monthly downloads
195,925
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
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Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
81
Issue Burden
3.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
709d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.1K
Windows
31
macOS
22
Python Versions
3.11
45.6%
1.3K
3.12
24.9%
730
3.14
14.0%
410
3.13
12.1%
355
3.10
3.5%
103
Top Countries
1.
US
2.6K
US
2.
FI
148
FI
3.
DE
110
DE
4.
FR
74
FR
5.
SG
70
SG
6.
HK
36
HK
7.
CA
26
CA
8.
RU
25
RU
9.
IE
21
IE
10.
IN
18
IN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
https://fontawesome.com/license/free
First Release
May 26, 2021
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
6.6.0
Total Releases
22
Contributors
28
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Author
Font Awesome
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh