[HN Gopher] Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
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Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons
Author : sea-gold
Score : 485 points
Date : 2026-01-18 06:53 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (icon-sets.iconify.design)
(TXT) w3m dump (icon-sets.iconify.design)
| sea-gold wrote:
| Previous discussions:
|
| September 2024 (4 comments, 17 points):
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615563
| FireInsight wrote:
| https://icones.js.org/ is a good site to search through these IMO
| vjay15 wrote:
| Really useful thank you!
| ulrischa wrote:
| Question to all HN Users: what is the best icon library?
| pixelready wrote:
| Honestly, I always default to material icons unless a project
| calls for a very specific style. The coverage is just so dang
| good I rarely find a scenario without an appropriate icon and
| the style is neutral enough to blend in with a number of UI
| designs.
| Bewelge wrote:
| I really like https://phosphoricons.com/
|
| But other than that, I also usually default to Material UI
| Icons.
| coolewurst wrote:
| I like Material Symbols best. Largest selection AFAIK and
| simple enough that you can create unique ones that fit in.
| Alupis wrote:
| My only issue with Material-anything is it immediately
| looks/feels to me like something Google-related.
|
| Not a deal-breaker entirely, but for my own things I like
| differentiate.
| coolewurst wrote:
| I see your point and like to do things myself, just so
| they're mine, but I feel like there's only so many ways to
| skin a cat and draw a plus symbol.
|
| Most users will not care if they have seen a map icon in
| another app before anyway.
| Itoldmyselfso wrote:
| If you use rounded or outline variants it's a bit different
| at least. There's also the two-tone variant which at least
| I haven't seen used much
| tezza wrote:
| I've used FlatIcon extensively. My use case is video games
| rather than web design.
|
| https://www.flaticon.com/
| jojomodding wrote:
| Sadly not open source licensed
| thecopy wrote:
| https://lucide.dev/
| egeozcan wrote:
| I learned about this thanks to claude always using it.
| deaux wrote:
| These now instantly ring everyone's slop alarm bells. I'd
| choose any set over them.
| sabellito wrote:
| Completely disagree, don't know of anyone who'd share that
| opinion.
| greatgib wrote:
| Why you don't like this set? You feel negative after
| looking at their website or you have a more serious reason?
| mbsa7 wrote:
| https://www.svgrepo.com I find the site very user friendly as
| it lets you customize the stroke's width, color etc, see how it
| looks like and copy the modified version.
| Frotag wrote:
| This site shows up on google a lot but it's a bit sketchy
| that there isn't a link to the source / license text. Not to
| mention the SEO heavy descriptions.
|
| > Free Download Wallet 460 SVG vector file in monocolor and
| multicolor type for Sketch and Figma from Wallet 460 Vectors
| svg vector
|
| Plus I've found the license listed isn't always accurate. For
| example the emojione icons are listed as MIT. But the actual
| repo says CC 4.0, with the non-artwork being MIT.
|
| https://www.svgrepo.com/svg/404123/skull-and-crossbones
|
| https://github.com/joypixels/emojione/
| croisillon wrote:
| famfamfam of course, the only set one will ever need
| swhitf wrote:
| The GOAT. I remember when basically every page on the
| internet had one of these icons on.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| You'll get a lot of responses but for me (excuse the
| nostalgia), icon design peaked with famfamfam's (aka Mark
| James's) Silk iconset from ~2005. It was a shame they were
| never available at higher resolutions (or as SVG), though I'm
| betting AI (either as Adobe Illustrator or Artificial
| Intelligence) can probably rectify that these days (and
| generate subpar additional icons to expand the set).
|
| View: https://peacocksoftware.com/silk
|
| Download: https://github.com/markjames/famfamfam-silk-
| icons/tree/maste...
| RestartKernel wrote:
| This makes me want to write a post about the rabbit hole that is
| icon optimisation. It drives me insane when websites suffer from
| layout shift simply because they are not inlining their icons,
| for one.
| jetin wrote:
| I agree with your comment, it is often an overlooked topic.
| Inlining icons can be one answer but be aware of the growing
| size of your DOM. Depending on the complexity, number and
| repetition of the icons you are using, an approach including
| lazy loading can be better. Layout shift is first and foremost
| caused by an improper space reservation.
| 8organicbits wrote:
| I believe setting width/height is a good fix here, although I
| see aspect ratio suggested as well. Inlining icons would
| prevent caching.
|
| https://web.dev/articles/optimize-cls#history_of_width_and_h...
| mythz wrote:
| iconify has been my primary source of icons for over a year now.
|
| Most of my Websites/Apps don't use rasterized graphics for design
| anymore, SVG + CSS gradients/backgrounds & effects seem to handle
| everything I need.
| hirako2000 wrote:
| To point out some of these SVGs are nicely animated and can be
| searched for.
|
| I used them for my offline text editor, the result turned
| wonderful (icons wise)
|
| https://wrifocus.bounded.cc
| albert_e wrote:
| Thanks for sharing -- looks very useful to me.
|
| Can you share any other details about your project -- if it can
| be self hosted, etc.
| hirako2000 wrote:
| I was hoping to open source it. Once I get to add some
| missing features and fix a few glitches.
|
| The purpose of self hosting isn't that useful as it's totally
| offline, everything goes to local storage and indexdb. It
| stays on the browser.
|
| But happy to share the repo if you would like to make it your
| own.
| albert_e wrote:
| offline is even great!
|
| if you are able to share the repo - that's great - thanks!
|
| i am toying with an idea of having a very light weight
| "idea capture" solution so i can capture my raw ideas with
| least friction .. and then channel them into more organized
| projects / drafts / blogs etc later.
|
| experimenting with tools like obsidian+git, github.dev,
| wispr flow, etc as input and storage channels ... but a
| lightweight markdown style note editor woould probably be a
| useful addition. need to experiment to find out for sure
| though.
| hirako2000 wrote:
| Obsidian would likely integrate better to this workflow.
|
| There is stackedit, also an offline first editor. Far
| more mature, can sync and store to the typical storage
| services.
|
| This app I made is.. more lightweight. It loads instantly
| for quick writing with no distractions. Pure markdown.
| Can organise but not mature.
|
| My contact is via my profile if you need access give your
| GitHub account.
| echoangle wrote:
| Which icon set is that? When I filter for ,,contains
| animations", I only get 3 icon sets where 2 are loaders and one
| is weather icons.
| hirako2000 wrote:
| line-md is the one. Plenty more than 3 animated.
|
| For size consistency, better stick to the same pack or you
| are on for SVG editing
| catoc wrote:
| The settings icon 'sprouting' cogs is really nice!
|
| The editor also looks really nice. Could this not be used
| online as well? Persistence on the server instead of browser
| cache? (Curious what your use case is for an offline browser
| based editor?)
| hirako2000 wrote:
| The use case is privacy. Data getting harvested by free and
| even paid for services isn't pleasant (targeted ads, data
| breach etc)
|
| If I get to add some "server" capability it will rather be
| webrtc, basically P2P to sync between devices, or a config to
| plug our own store. E.g GitHub, Google drive, dropbox or a
| self hosted service to SCP the files.
|
| It isn't just browser cached, one can export individual
| documents or the entire store as a zipped folder. And back
| that up.
| catoc wrote:
| The editor can be online - persistence is primarily local -
| that makes sense
| rezonant wrote:
| Offline first (or only) is the way :-D
| DenisDolya wrote:
| Thank you for sharing, this will come in handy for me.
| aziis98 wrote:
| This simply solved icons for me
| nawaz0x1 wrote:
| Nice work
| primaprashant wrote:
| They also have an API which you can use to get the icon SVG.
|
| I love making (architecture) diagrams in D2 [1], and love using
| the vast library of icons from Iconify in my diagrams where it
| makes sense. A sample diagram with SVG from Iconfiy would look
| like this: docker: Docker { icon:
| https://api.iconify.design/logos/docker-icon.svg }
| kubernetes: Kubernetes { icon:
| https://api.iconify.design/logos/kubernetes.svg }
| docker -> kubernetes: deploy
|
| [1]: https://d2lang.com/
| davidcann wrote:
| My site can extend a bunch of the icon sets that are on Iconify
| with AI image models, so you can feel comfortable using a more
| unique set than just the big ones: https://universymbols.com
| stared wrote:
| Nice!
|
| One features that would be really nice would be to pick and icon
| (or a few) and compare these against all these icon sets.
|
| So the process is "I want to have save icon matches the best my
| design" and go from there.
| BaudouinVH wrote:
| I would have placed the search box on the left above "Filter
| icons set" #my2cents
| EGreg wrote:
| Are these correlated, by css class name, or like a font? So we
| could switch a "theme"?
| joshuaisaact wrote:
| This is a brilliant library, thanks so much for sharing it
| t_mahmood wrote:
| https://www.svgrepo.com/ is another one that I have found very
| useful.
| aeontech wrote:
| Since people are posting links to alternatives, another awesome
| source is the noun project. Has a mix of royalty-free, Creative
| Commons CC-BY-3.0, and paid license icons.
|
| https://thenounproject.com/
| pdntspa wrote:
| Noun project is great but you have to manually remove a bunch
| of junk from their SVGs to make them usable unless you pay.
| It's kind of BS
| pdntspa wrote:
| Great! But where is the "download all" button.
|
| Folders on my hard drive > anything hosted on the web
| lasgawe wrote:
| Love this. I use their Figma plugin almost every day.
| paradox460 wrote:
| Pictogrammers have one small advantage over this: they give you
| the home assistant code for any icon in material. Sure, it's not
| hard to figure the code yourself, but being able to click a
| button and get the right one is great
| czhu12 wrote:
| Huge props to this project. Use it daily for everything I've
| built. It has icons on basically everything.
|
| I was pleasantly surprised the other other day that it had both
| colored and uncolored devicons for the k3s project, which
| definitely isn't that mainstream
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