Resources / Icons
Whether you need a crisp SVG set like Heroicons or Phosphor Icons, a massive searchable library like Iconify, or animated icons from Lordicon, this collection has you covered for any project.
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UXWing
Library of more than 150 icon categories in SVG and PNG, free for personal and commercial use with no attribution required, plus an in browser icon editor.
No attribution required for commercial use; site actively adding new icons.
Feather Icons
Open source line icon set with 287 SVG icons under the MIT license, usable as plain SVG, a web font, or React and Vue component packages.
MIT license, 287 icons, current release v4.29.0, created by Cole Bemis.
Tabler Icons
Open source icon set with more than 6,200 SVG icons under the MIT license, free for personal and commercial use, with React, Vue, and Figma packages.
Official site moved to tabler.io/icons. MIT license, 6,220+ icons at v3.48.0, optional paid compiled bundle.
Xicons
Icon component library for Vue 3, Vue 2, and React that bundles Ant Design, Fluent UI, Ionicons, Material, Font Awesome, Tabler, and Carbon icon sets behind one API.
Core packages MIT licensed; Font Awesome set is CC BY 4.0, Material and Carbon sets Apache 2.0.
Iconoir
Open source icon library with 1,671 icons under the MIT license, available for React, React Native, Flutter, Vue, Swift, Figma, and Framer.
MIT license, 1,671 icons, actively updated, more than 440,000 monthly React package downloads.
Simple Icons
Collection of more than 3,400 SVG icons for popular brands and services, released under the CC0 1.0 public domain license with no attribution needed.
CC0 1.0 license, 3,400+ icons, actively maintained with frequent commits and open pull requests.
Linear Icons
Free pack of 170 line style SVG and icon font icons under CC BY SA 4.0, which requires linking back to the site; a paid pro pack removes that requirement.
Free tier: 170 icons, attribution required (CC BY SA 4.0); little recent change to the free pack.
Icons8
Large catalog of icons, illustrations, and photos in multiple styles, free to use with a required attribution link; paid plans remove attribution and add formats.
Site blocks automated fetches but is a long running, actively operated commercial icon service.
Flat Icon
Large marketplace of stock icons in multiple formats and styles, free to use with required attribution; a premium subscription removes the attribution requirement.
The Noun Project
Library of nearly 10 million icons and stock photos. Downloads are free with attribution or paid for a royalty free license, with Figma and Adobe plugins.
Royalty free paid licenses available; free tier requires attribution; plugins for Figma and Adobe.
Iconscout
Marketplace for icons, illustrations, 3D assets, and Lottie animations with millions of files. Free plan allows limited downloads, paid subscription unlocks the full library.
Freemium model, paid subscription required for full library access; plugins for Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch.
IconSear.ch
Meta search engine that indexes icons from open source sets like Material Design, Font Awesome, Ionicons, and Lucide, linking each result to its source repository.
Free, no account needed; links go directly to each icon set's GitHub source repository.
Nucleo App
Icon library of more than 44,000 premium SVG icons across UI, sharp, pixel, glass, and flag styles, with a browser app plus desktop apps for Mac and Windows.
Paid licenses, standard and extended; bootstrapped independent company since 2014, not VC funded.
Icon-icons.com
Large community contributed icon library with icons in SVG, PNG, ICO, ICNS, AI, and EPS formats, most free for personal and commercial use.
Individual icons may require attribution depending on each contributing designer's own license terms.
Bootstrap Icons
Official icon set for the Bootstrap framework but usable standalone, with over 2,000 icons shipped as SVG files, an SVG sprite, and a web font.
MIT licensed, maintained by the Bootstrap team, currently at version 1.13.1; also sold as a Figma library.
Remix Icon
Open source neutral style icon system with more than 3,200 icons, free for personal and commercial use under the Remix Icon License, with React and Vue packages.
Remix Icon License v1.0, free for personal and commercial use; current release 4.9.0, actively maintained.
Iconmonstr
Free SVG icon library with more than 4,780 icons across 316 collections, downloadable individually or in bulk after accepting the site license agreement.
Iconfinder
Icon marketplace founded in 2007 and folded into Freepik's icon section after acquisition by Freepik Company, with free and premium SVG and PNG downloads.
iconfinder.com now redirects to freepik.com/icons; free downloads need attribution, premium removes it.
Lordicon
Animated icon library built on Lottie, with 9,700 icons free under attribution and a paid plan unlocking more than 38,100 icons without attribution.
Free plan requires attribution; paid PRO plan removes attribution and adds 38,100+ icons in 10 collections.
UseAnimations
Free library of more than 90 click and loop animated icons built on the Lottie framework, delivered as SVG with a React package for web apps.
MIT licensed code; React package published as react-useanimations on npm.
Css.gg
Set of 700 interface icons delivered as pure CSS, SVG, or framework components for React, Vue, and Figma, free to use in personal and commercial projects.
Material Design Icons
Library of more than 7,000 UI icons now maintained by Pictogrammers, which took over the project from the original materialdesignicons.com site and name.
Renamed and relocated to Pictogrammers; GitHub repo shows active development with 9,500+ commits.
Heroicons
Set of 316 hand crafted SVG icons made by the team behind Tailwind CSS, released under the MIT license with official React and Vue packages.
heroicons.com is the official Tailwind Labs project; heroicons.dev is an unrelated unofficial mirror.
Zondicons
Free SVG icon set of about 400 interface icons drawn and maintained by designer Steve Schoger, shipped as a single downloadable SVG sprite file.
Creator states the set stays free permanently; the published changelog was last updated in 2017.
Endless Icons
Free icon gallery run by DesignBombs that aggregates downloadable icon sets by category and tag, with premium picks from other sites linked alongside.
Running since 2012 with over 1.8 million recorded downloads; license terms vary by linked set.
Icomoon
Browser based tool that converts SVG icons into an icon font, SVG sprite, or PNG and PDF exports, usable for free directly at icomoon.io/app.
Eva Icons
Open source set of more than 480 UI icons for common actions, available as PNG, SVG, icon font, or Sketch file under the MIT license.
MIT licensed; GitHub repo is not archived but shows dozens of open issues and pending pull requests.
Cryptoicons
Public domain cryptocurrency icon set with over 500 coins in SVG and PNG, now distributed on GitHub after the original cryptoicons.co site shut down.
CC0 license, 7,500+ files across four styles and sizes; the original domain returns HTTP 410.
Ikonate
Collection of fully customizable, accessible SVG icons meant to be inlined and styled with CSS or JavaScript, no longer hosted on its own site.
No commits since December 2022; the ikonate.com domain no longer resolves, GitHub is the only source.
Appicon
Generates app icons for iOS, Android, macOS, and watchOS from a text prompt using AI, exporting every required size plus an Xcode asset catalog.
Free, no account needed, no watermark on exports.
LineIcons
Icon library with over 31,000 icons across ten styles including outline, solid, and duotone, downloadable as SVG, PNG, web font, or framework components.
Free tier only unlocks a limited subset; the full 31,204 icon set needs a paid subscription.
SVG Repo
Searchable library of free SVG icons and vector graphics collected from many open source sets, with each result tagged with its own source license.
Convertio
Browser based converter that traces a PNG into an SVG file, handling uploads up to 1GB with free basic conversions and paid plans for batches and priority speed.
Converted files are auto deleted within 24 hours; works best on logos and icons rather than photos.
CSS ICON
Collection of common UI icons built with pure CSS only, no images, SVG, or icon fonts required, created by designer Wenting Zhang as a lightweight alternative.
Unified icons
Framework giving access to over 300,000 open source icons from more than 150 icon sets through one consistent API, with components for React, Vue, Svelte, and others.
Iconify's own code is MIT licensed; each bundled icon set keeps its original separate license.
System UIcons
Small set of simple, consistent SVG icons for product and system interfaces, created by Corey Ginnivan and free to use with no attribution required.
Free for commercial use without attribution; available via GitHub repo and CDN link.
Radix Icons
Open source icon set from the Radix UI team on a 15 by 15 pixel grid, available as React components, SVG files, and a Figma file under the MIT license.
Moved from icons.modulz.app to Radix UI; maintained by WorkOS; MIT licensed.
Ionicons
Open source icon set built by the Ionic team for web, iOS, Android, and desktop apps, MIT licensed and distributed as SVG files and web components.
MIT licensed; maintained by Ionic, now part of OutSystems.
Phosphor Icons
Open source icon family with over 9,000 icons across six weights, thin, light, regular, bold, fill, and duotone, MIT licensed for many frameworks.
MIT license; core repo actively maintained with packages for React, Vue, Flutter, and Swift.
Lucide
Community maintained fork of Feather Icons with over 1,800 SVG icons, ISC licensed, with packages for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, and more.
Forked from Feather Icons after that project went stale; ISC license; active maintainer team.
Icones
Icon search and explorer powered by Iconify, letting you browse and export icons from over 100 open source icon sets, MIT licensed, built by Anthony Fu.
MIT license; actively maintained with thousands of GitHub stars.
Shitty Icons
Small free collection of hand drawn PNG icons from an independent creator, with custom icon requests taken informally over social media.
Niche, solo run project; icons are downloaded individually as PNG files.
Iconhub
Free icon library with line, glyph, flat color, and multi color variants across many categories, with adjustable size and stroke width on download.
Free to use; account signup needed to download; license terms linked separately on the site.
3DICONS
Open source 3D icon library with 200 icons and over 1,500 renders, CC0 licensed with no attribution required, plus a paid premium pack for sale.
CC0 license; made by Vijay Verma at Overlayz Studio; also ships a Figma plugin.
IconsDb
Database of 4,216 flat icons across 36 themed sets, recolorable and resizable before download, covering a broad range of everyday categories.
About 2,740 icons are free with no attribution; the rest require attribution or a paid license.
Best Free Icon Libraries for Developers & Designers
Finding the right icon library is essential for consistent, professional-looking interfaces. Free SVG icons, icon fonts, and animated icon sets are available in abundance, but knowing which ones are high quality and actively maintained saves considerable time.
Pick on license first, not on icon count. Tabler Icons and Simple Icons are fully free under MIT and CC0, nothing owed back to the maintainer. Marketplaces like Flat Icon, Icons8, and The Noun Project look similarly free but only on condition of a visible attribution link, which a paid plan removes.
For one consistent family at scale, Phosphor Icons covers six weights across more than 9,000 icons, while Unified icons (Iconify) spans over 150 separate sets behind one API when variety matters more than consistency. Lucide is the maintained continuation of the stalled Feather Icons, and Material Design Icons now lives under its new maintainer, Pictogrammers. The recurring trap here is abandonment: several once popular sets sat untouched for years or had domains taken over outright, so check the last commit first.
What to check before you pick one
- License clarity: Confirm icons are free for commercial use, not just personal projects.
- Format variety: Good libraries offer SVG, PNG, and framework-specific packages (React, Vue).
- Consistency: Icons in the set should share the same visual style and stroke weight.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best free SVG icon libraries?
Top free SVG icon libraries include Heroicons, Feather Icons, Tabler Icons, Phosphor Icons, Lucide, and Remix Icon. All are open source and available in SVG format, many also provide React and Vue components.
Are Material Design icons free to use?
Yes, Material Design Icons are free and open source under the Apache License 2.0. You can use them in personal and commercial projects. They are available via Google Fonts or the community-maintained materialdesignicons.com.
What is the difference between icon fonts and SVG icons?
Icon fonts render icons as text characters and are styled with CSS, making them easy to colorize and scale. SVG icons are vector files that offer better accessibility, sharper rendering at all sizes, and individual icon loading for better performance.