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Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

537 pointsby sea-goldyesterday at 6:53 AM59 commentsview on HN

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primaprashantyesterday at 11:44 AM

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/
hirako2000yesterday at 10:02 AM

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

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FireInsightyesterday at 8:12 AM

https://icones.js.org/ is a good site to search through these IMO

RestartKernelyesterday at 8:34 AM

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.

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sea-goldyesterday at 6:53 AM

Previous discussions:

September 2024 (4 comments, 17 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41615563

atonsetoday at 12:48 AM

Iconify solved icons for us. I love just sending a designer or UX person there and telling them to go nuts.

czhu12yesterday at 7:39 PM

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

aeontechyesterday at 5:38 PM

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/

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paradox460yesterday at 6:51 PM

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

ulrischayesterday at 8:28 AM

Question to all HN Users: what is the best icon library?

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davidcannyesterday at 11:57 AM

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

aziis98yesterday at 10:17 AM

This simply solved icons for me

staredyesterday at 12:22 PM

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.

pdntspayesterday at 5:42 PM

Great! But where is the "download all" button.

Folders on my hard drive > anything hosted on the web

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lasgaweyesterday at 5:49 PM

Love this. I use their Figma plugin almost every day.

joshuaisaactyesterday at 2:46 PM

This is a brilliant library, thanks so much for sharing it

mythzyesterday at 9:16 AM

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.

DenisDolyayesterday at 10:17 AM

Thank you for sharing, this will come in handy for me.

BaudouinVHyesterday at 1:16 PM

I would have placed the search box on the left above "Filter icons set" #my2cents

vjay15yesterday at 8:17 AM

Really useful thank you!

t_mahmoodyesterday at 3:17 PM

https://www.svgrepo.com/ is another one that I have found very useful.

EGregyesterday at 2:25 PM

Are these correlated, by css class name, or like a font? So we could switch a “theme”?

nawaz0x1yesterday at 11:03 AM

Nice work

vikas-sharmayesterday at 12:03 PM

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