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7 popular Icon libraries you can use in your websites

Sam on December 08, 2022

Icons are an essential part of modern web design, as they provide a visual representation of an idea or concept simply and concisely. They are ofte...
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Muhamad Jamil

i used to iconify, its like combine all of icon library to one library

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Sam

Thanks for mentioning this. Good addition.

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Jatin Sharma • Edited

I use react-icons all the time. It contains many libraries like Font Awesome, Game Icons, Heroicons, Ionicons, etc

For more info visit here

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Sam

Great addition Jatin. This post was more about the libraries you can use everywhere. I'll publish another post targeting only React.

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Robert Bernstein

This is a great article. Thanks for all the resources! I would just suggest that you include a link to each library's homepage for those who want to read up on them further.

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Sam

Glad you find it useful. Thanks for the good idea. Will add the links soon.

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Tiago Rangel

Great post, thanks!

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Sam

Glad you liked it, Tiago!

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Charles Loder • Edited

Friconix is nice because it allows you to download only the icons you need

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Siddik Shaikh

Tq FYKI

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Grace Huynh

Im using Font Awesome all the time

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Sam

Yup, that's my favourite too. It's awesome indeed!

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lapanikeugene

Without icon examples this article is not 100% useful

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Benfares Ibrahim

I don't really like using icon libraries because they tend to significantly increase your website's bundle size. Instead, I download only the icons that I'd be using in my project.

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Sam

There are usually some ways to just get the icons you need from the libraries.