Font Awesome vs wp-Typography
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| Feature | Font Awesome v5.2.1 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 3.6/5 Visit Details | wp-Typography v5.11.0 · checked 23 Oct 2026 Free · ★ 4.6/5 Visit Details |
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| At a glance | ||
| Active installs | 400,000+ | 10,000+ |
| Last updated | August 13, 2026 | February 23, 2025 |
| Editions | Font Awesome | wp-Typography |
| Pros | Official plugin from the Font Awesome team; Icon block and classic editor icon chooser; Loads icons from a Kit or a selected release | Hyphenation and widow prevention; Smart quotes, dashes and ellipses; Ignore rules for tags, classes and IDs |
| Cons | Pro icons need a Pro account and a Kit; Depends on Font Awesome's release and Kit services; Icons load from Font Awesome's servers, so a blocked host affects them | Many options to set up before the output looks right; Hyphenation needs the right language set per site; Adds processing to rendered text |
| Mentioned in our posts | 1 | 1 |
| More features | ||
| Other features | Load icons through a Font Awesome Kit, Pro icons through a Pro Kit ($), Choose a Font Awesome release version, Gutenberg Font Awesome icon block, Icon chooser button in the classic editor, Detects other plugins loading Font Awesome, Settings page under Settings | Automatic hyphenation with language settings, Smart quotes, dashes, ellipses and marks, Widow prevention, Forced wrapping of long URLs, emails and hyphens, Typography block for the block editor, Settings page under the Settings menu |
| Integrations | ||
| E-commerce | — | WooCommerce |
| Plugins | — | Advanced Custom Fields |
| Other | Font Awesome Kits and release API | — |
| Requires WordPress | 5.8 | 6.6 |
| Requires PHP | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Tested up to | 7.1 | 6.7 |
| Phones home | No | No |
| External services | api.fontawesome.com, kit.fontawesome.com | — |
| Blocks | 1 | 1 |