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10 open source SVG icon libraries that you can use for your next project

Zoltán Szőgyényi on April 30, 2020

Last week I started a thread on reddit asking fellow developers a simple question: which is your favourite icon library? The post quickly became po...
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Andrew • Edited

I don't know if it's open source, but iconmonstr has great free icons

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Zoltán Szőgyényi

It is not open source, you can only use it for personal websites for instance. Here's an example from their license agreement:

"Licensee may not sell, redistribute, sublicense, share or otherwise transfer the Work to other people
or entities."

Although their icons look great it's not open source :(

iconmonstr.com/license/

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Andrew

But the license also says

Licensee may use the Work in non-commercial and commercial projects, services or products without attribution.

I believe that means you can use them commercially, but you don't own them?

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Zoltán Szőgyényi • Edited

If this is part of the license then it is not open source. It's just free under their license agreement. Most of the other icon libraries listed above are licensed under the MIT License which is the most permissive license.

license agreement

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Andrew

Okay thanks for clarifying

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Zoltán Szőgyényi • Edited

This basically means that you can not use these icons in a product that you will further sell, such as a website template in comparison with the other libraries listed above where you can do whatever your heart wishes :)

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Best Now Real • Edited

You could check my website that very interresting when it comes to Mini Phú Quốc real estate
bestnowreal.com/mini-hotel-phu-quoc

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Patrick Röthlisberger

Not really icons but I recently used openmoji.org

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Gokul prabhu

Another source for free icons : material.io/resources/icons/?style...

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Zoltán Szőgyényi

This is cool, I'll update the list in a short while. Thanks for the suggestion Gokul!

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Adithya Sreyaj

Fan of Eva and Remix Icons... Have been using a lot of Remix icons lately.

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emTr0

Great list. Definitely saving for the future. Thank you!

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Łukasz Holeczek

You can also try our icons - CoreUI Icons. I'm very curious what You think about it.

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Rémy F.

Can you try yne.fr/picon ?
it's SVG-based, with ligature support and it can compile your SVG selection to a font file :)

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Zoltán Szőgyényi

I'll check it out, might even add it to the list. Thanks for the suggestion!

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hanoitown

Could you check what kind of svg lib this real estate site is using annhome.vn/vinhomes-grand-park/lay...

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Csaba Kissi

One more SVG icon pack created by Pawel from Poland. Tabler Icons have a configurable stroke, color, and size.