Simple Icons — Free SVG Icons for Popular Brands

Introduction

Simple Icons provides free SVG icons for thousands of popular brands and projects. Every icon follows a consistent 24x24 viewBox standard and ships with the official brand color, making it easy to build polished UIs without hunting for individual logos.

What Simple Icons Does

• Supplies over 3000 SVG icons for brands, services, and open-source projects
• Includes the official hex color for each brand alongside the icon
• Ships as an npm package, CDN resource, and downloadable SVG archive
• Provides a searchable website for browsing and copying icons instantly
• Offers first-party integrations for React, Vue, and other frameworks via community wrappers

Architecture Overview

The project stores each icon as a JSON entry with title, slug, hex color, source URL, and SVG path data. A build pipeline generates optimized SVG files, an npm package with named exports per icon, and a static website. Icons are normalized to a 24x24 pixel grid and stripped of unnecessary metadata for minimal file size.

Self-Hosting & Configuration

• Install the npm package for programmatic access to all icons
• Use the CDN at cdn.simpleicons.org for direct SVG URLs by slug
• Download the full icon set as a ZIP from the GitHub releases page
• Reference icons by slug in framework wrappers like react-simple-icons
• Contribute new icons via pull request following the project guidelines

Key Features

• Consistent 24x24 SVG format across all icons for uniform rendering
• Official brand colors included as hex values for each icon
• Zero dependencies and small per-icon bundle size with tree shaking
• Community-maintained with regular additions and updates
• Licensed under CC0 for unrestricted use in any project

Comparison with Similar Tools

• Lucide — general-purpose UI icons; Simple Icons focuses on brand logos
• Font Awesome — includes brand icons but requires a larger library import
• Heroicons — Tailwind-aligned UI icons with no brand coverage
• Feather Icons — minimal UI icon set; Simple Icons covers logos only
• Iconify — aggregator of many icon sets; Simple Icons is a single curated source

FAQ

Q: Are these icons free for commercial use? A: Yes. They are released under CC0 1.0 Universal, placing them in the public domain.

Q: How do I request a new icon? A: Open an issue on GitHub with the brand name, official source, and SVG path data following the contribution guidelines.

Q: Can I change the icon color? A: Yes. The SVGs use currentColor or a single fill, so you can override the color with CSS or inline attributes.

Q: How often are new icons added? A: The community merges new icons regularly, often multiple times per week.

Sources

• https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons
• https://simpleicons.org