Icons improve UI and UX. But creating custom icons is time‑consuming. Free icon libraries save hours.
Here are 10 free icon libraries, all usable for commercial projects (most without attribution).
1. Font Awesome (Free tier)
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Font Awesome is the most popular icon library. The free version includes over 2,000 icons. Use as a font or SVG. Easy to integrate with CSS. Attribution not required. Pro version adds 20,000+.
2. Feather Icons
Feather offers 300+ open‑source icons. They are simple, consistent, and lightweight. Each icon is a 24x24 SVG. Perfect for modern web apps. No attribution required.
3. Heroicons
Heroicons from Tailwind Labs. 300+ icons in outline and solid styles. MIT licensed. You can copy SVG code directly. Great for Tailwind CSS projects.
4. Lucide
URL: https://lucide.dev
Lucide is a community‑driven fork of Feather. 1,000+ icons. Available as SVG, React, Vue, and more. Actively maintained. Free for commercial use.
5. Bootstrap Icons
URL: https://icons.getbootstrap.com
Over 1,800 icons from the Bootstrap team. SVG and web font formats. No attribution required. Designed to work with Bootstrap but usable standalone.
6. Remix Icon
Remix Icon offers 2,500+ icons in line and fill styles. Open‑source (Apache 2.0). Each icon is a single SVG. Also available as font.
7. Iconify (Aggregator)
Iconify gives you access to over 100 icon sets (Font Awesome, Material Design, etc.) via a single API. It's not a library itself but a unified framework. Free for unlimited usage.
8. Phosphor Icons
URL: https://phosphoricons.com
Phosphor offers 6,000+ icons in 6 weights (thin, light, regular, bold, fill, duotone). MIT licensed. SVGs and React components.
9. Boxicons
URL: https://boxicons.com
Boxicons has 1,500+ icons, including regular, solid, and logos. Free for commercial use with attribution (or one‑time purchase to remove). Good for web projects.
10. Material Symbols (Google)
URL: https://fonts.google.com/icons
Google's Material Symbols replace the old Material Icons. Over 2,500 icons with variable font weight and optical size. Free, open‑source. Easy integration.
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