10 Usable and Creative Icon Libraries

Amruta
UX Planet
Published in
4 min readOct 4, 2023

Icons that are designer and developer-friendly, are customizable, available in so many formats… it's an endless list of pros!

Icon library links

Finding one simple icon is easy, but designing a cohesive set of icons that align with the same style, maintain uniformity, and effectively convey a complicated topic can be a challenging task!

In my long journey of finding perfect icons, I came across many libraries and websites. I found myself narrowing down the plethora of great sources to a few that fulfilled my requirements to the fullest. Here is that narrowed-down list in the hope of helping designers streamline their creative process. ✨

Just to note: The following list is in no particular order…

1. Material Symbols and Icons

Pros:

  • Used by a vast majority
  • Designer and developer guides
  • Customizable
  • Frequent Updates
  • Figma Plugin, Github repo

2. Iconfinder

Pros:

  • Diverse libraries of creative icons
  • Free and paid
  • Icon sets and collections by different designers
  • Multiple download formats (SVG, PNG, ICO, and more)

3. Forge Icons

Pros:

  • Customizable
  • Quick download of icon pack
  • Free to use
  • Test on light and dark theme
  • A small yet aesthetic set of icons

4. Streamline Icons

Pros:

  • They have a really cool website!
  • Extensive and diverse library of icons
  • Free icons available
  • Available in so many formats (SVG, PNG, AI, and Sketch)
  • Great quality
  • Customizable
  • Free Figma and Lucidspark Plugin

5. Lucide

Pros:

  • Customizable
  • Packages available for various dev platforms
  • Ease of use
  • Free icons available
  • Test on light and dark theme
  • Figma plugin

6. Flaticon

Pros:

  • Vast icon library created by various designers
  • Icons segregated into collections
  • Free and paid
  • Multiple download formats
  • Accessibility check on multiple icon sets

7. Fontawesome

Pros:

  • Consistent icon design
  • Free and Paid icons
  • Easy CSS integration
  • Figma library
  • Various styles
  • Customizable
  • Designed with accessibility in mind

8. Iconshock

Pros:

  • Unique styles
  • Extensive collection of high-quality icons
  • Customizable
  • Available in vector format (SVG)
  • Free icons available
  • Regularly updated

9. Icons8

Pros:

  • Extensive collection of high-quality icons
  • Customizable
  • Multiple download formats (PNG, SVG, PDF, etc.)
  • Free and premium icons
  • Figma plugin available

10. Tabler Icons

Pros:

  • Consistent style of icons
  • Various packages are available making it designer and developer friendly
  • Figma plugin available
  • Free to use
  • Customizable
  • Regularly updated

That’s all folks! Stay tuned as we are just getting started on our journey together. Until next time, let’s keep the conversation going! Leave a comment or feedback…

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