Hey everyone 👋
I just published Digibear Icons — a free manifest-based, cross-platform icon system. It's not "just another icon library".
The concept is very simple but powerful :
Define your icons once in a manifest → generate everywhere.
Digibear is tool-first (CLI + manifest & Figma plugin), works across web frameworks, native platforms, and design tools, and even lets you integrate your own custom icons (you don't even have to use our icons if you don't want to).
Multiple workflows are possible, but here is one I like :
- Design in Figma using our Digibear Icons plugin
- Export a manifest that contains all the icons you need
- Give that manifest to developers (web, native,...)
- Developers scaffold code and generate icons for their platform using the manifest.
It’s 100 % free (personal & commercial), with optional sponsorships to keep it evolving and for those needing support (details at the bottom of this post).
🧩 Icons as a manifest (no tree-shaking, fully portable)
Digibear is built around a single YAML icon manifest + a CLI.
You define all the icons you need in a manifest and generate everything from that for :
- Web frameworks
- Native platforms
- Design tools (Figma)
- Multiple formats (SVG, TS, SwiftUI, Compose, Flutter…)
No giant bundles. No guessing whether tree-shaking will work or not.
You own the generated code and you can edit it.
🚀 CLI : from zero to portable icons in seconds
Install the CLI :
npm install -g @digibeardev/icons-cli
1️⃣ Scaffold your framework
dgbear scaffold -f react -v 1.0.0
(Works for Qwik, React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Solid, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, Flutter…)
2️⃣ Pick the icons you need
dgbear add heart,star
dgbear add leaf,cactus fill,duotone
👉 You can add multiple icons at once using commas, and the same applies to styles.
(more advanced power-user patterns can be found on the GitHub README, see link at the bottom of this post)
This updates your icon manifest, which can be shared across teams, repos, and even design tools.
3️⃣ Generate everything
dgbear gen
That’s it.
Icons are generated for all configured outputs.
Advanced features (themes, variants, icon groups, custom icons, multi-platform outputs, manifest merging, etc.) can be found on the website and in the GitHub README.
👉 Links are available at the bottom of this post.
🎨 The icon library
- 1457 icons
- 3 styles : line / fill / duotone → 4371 icons total
- Designed on a 24px grid for consistency across platforms
You only bundle what you actually use.
🎨 Figma plugin (same manifest, same icons)
There’s a Figma plugin that uses the exact same manifest :
- One component set, icons as variants
- Easy variant switching
- Update icons anytime
- Import / export manifests
- Custom icons supported
This keeps design & code perfectly in sync.
🔗 Plugin link at the bottom 👇
🧩 Custom icons are first-class citizens
You can add your own SVG icons directly to the manifest :
- They appear in the Figma plugin
- Generate correctly for all platforms
- Follow the same pipeline as built-in icons
No “official vs custom” split.
Details and guidelines are available on the website and GitHub README (links below).
🤖 AI-powered icon search
Icons are HB generated (Human Brain 🧠), tagged, described, and then embedded using an AI model to enable semantic search (by meaning, not keywords).
⚠️ Quick note :
Search may feel slow at times because everything currently runs on a single small Hetzner machine (website, API, AI search, CLI metadata, etc.).
This is purely a budget constraint, not a design limitation.
Upgrading infrastructure is one of the first things planned with more sponsorship support, which is why sponsorships directly help improve performance (more about that in the next section)
🐻 FREE, but community-funded ❤️ (IMPORTANT)
Digibear Icons is :
- Free (for Personal & Commercial use)
- License-free
- Not feature-gated
However, long-term development, maintenance and improvements depends on sponsorships.
With enough support, I can :
- Upgrade the infrastructure (higher sign-up/sign-in email caps, faster AI search,...)
- Add more icons
- Maintain wrappers across frameworks
- Improve the CLI, Figma plugin, and AI search
Without it, I’ll mainly maintain the stacks I personally use
(Qwik, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose) and the icon library won't evolve much.
If Digibear Icons helps you, sponsoring (or even just sharing it) helps a ton 🐻 !
⭐ VIP sponsorships (for production users)
For 100€/month or more, sponsors get VIP support, intended for individuals or companies using Digibear Icons in production.
VIP sponsors get :
- 📧 Direct support via email (VIPsupport@digibear.dev). Please use the email associated with your sponsorship.
- Priority handling for questions, bugs, and integration issues
- Name or logo listed on (on request to VIPsupport@digibear.dev) :
- The Digibear Icons website
- The GitHub README
- They can influence upcoming icon batches (requests aren’t guaranteed, but they’re always considered).
VIP sponsors are sorted by sponsorship amount (minimum 100€/month). The higher paid VIPs will be listed first on the website.
🛠️ Small infrastructure notes (for transparency)
As of 26th December 2025, because of budget restriction :
- Emails are currently sent via Resend’s free SMTP plan (100 emails/day for a total of 3000/month). If sign-up emails don’t arrive, trying again later usually works.
- Website, AI search, and services all run on a single low-budget server.
I prefer being transparent about this rather than letting people assume it’s a quality issue. This will improve as sponsorships come in.
🔗 Links, full docs & advanced usage
🌍 Website
https://digibear.dev
📦 CLI
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@digibeardev/icons-cli
📦 Web core library
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@digibeardev/icons-core
📚 CLI documentation (full manifest & advanced usage)
https://github.com/digibearapp/icons-cli
🎨 Figma plugin
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1584910839032205037/digibear-icons
Thanks for reading and thanks for any support you might give ❤️ !
Even sharing Digibear Icons or giving feedback helps more than you might think.
I'll be happy to answer questions, get feedback, and see what you build with Digibear Icons 🐻 !
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