Best Icon & Illustration Libraries

Every product needs icons and spot illustrations, and nobody should pay an illustrator for a settings-gear glyph. These libraries cover UI icon sets, one-off SVGs, and full illustration systems — nearly all of them free. The good ones stay visually consistent across hundreds of glyphs and ship in formats your framework can actually import.

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    Font AwesomeFreemium

    Still the default: the biggest ecosystem, integrations for every framework, and a free set that covers most UI needs.

    The internet's icon library and toolkit for web projects.

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    Pick this for Tailwind projects — MIT-licensed icons drawn by the Tailwind team that drop straight into JSX.

    Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

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    FlaticonFreemium

    The largest searchable pool of free icons when you need a specific concept, not a matching UI set.

    Massive library of free icons and stickers for any project.

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    Icons8Freemium

    One library covers icons, illustrations, photos, and music in matching styles — good for keeping an entire deck consistent.

    Icons, illustrations, photos, and music all in one design library.

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    LucideFree

    The community-run Feather successor: 1,000+ consistent stroke icons with official React, Vue, and Svelte packages.

    Open-source fork of Feather — 1000+ consistent icons.

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    Six weights per glyph, thin to fill, so one family handles nav, buttons, and empty states without mixing sets.

    Flexible icon family with 6 weights — open source.

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    Over 5,000 MIT-licensed stroke icons on a strict grid — the biggest fully-free set that still looks uniform.

    Over 5,000 free, customizable SVG icons for any project.

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    The meta-library: one component and API serving 100,000+ icons from every major open set, loaded on demand.

    100,000+ open-source icons in one universal API.

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    The official Bootstrap set, but they're plain open-source SVGs that work in any stack.

    Free, open-source SVG icon library designed for Bootstrap.

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    500,000+ free SVGs — the place for one-off spot graphics and shapes that curated icon packs don't cover.

    500,000+ free SVG vectors and icons for any project.

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    unDrawFree

    The default free illustration set for landing pages; recolor every scene to your brand hex in one click.

    Open-source illustrations you can customize to match your brand.

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    Free, customizable scene illustrations — strongest for pitch decks, onboarding screens, and presentations.

    Free customizable illustrations for your projects and presentations.