Feather Icons
Simply beautiful open source icons — the original minimal icon set
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OVERVIEW
Feather Icons is the original minimal open-source icon library that inspired a generation of modern icon sets. Created by Cole Bemis, Feather established the design language of clean, consistent stroke-based icons that libraries like Lucide later built upon.
With 287 carefully crafted icons, Feather prioritizes quality and consistency over quantity. Every icon is designed on a 24x24 grid with a 2px stroke, rounded line caps, and rounded line joins — creating a cohesive, friendly aesthetic that works well for consumer-facing applications.
The react-feather package provides typed React components for all icons. Each component is tree-shakable and accepts size, color, strokeWidth, and className props. However the library has not received significant updates since 2020 and is considered feature-complete by its maintainer.
// VERDICTFeather Icons is a classic for a reason — the design quality is exceptional for its size. However for new projects in 2026, Lucide Icons is the better choice as it is a direct spiritual successor with 5x more icons, active maintenance, and the same design philosophy.
OFFICIAL LICENSE & COMMERCIAL USE
The MIT License is a highly popular, extremely permissive open-source license. Under the MIT License, you are officially allowed to use Feather Icons in any personal, commercial, or corporate software projects completely free of charge. You can modify the icons, distribute them, sell software containing them, and even sublicense them. The only requirement is that you must preserve the original copyright notice and permission notice in all copies of the software.
- Commercial Use Allowed
- Modification Allowed
- Redistribution Allowed
- Sublicensing Allowed
- Must keep copyright notice in source files
- License remains active on copy/use
INSTALLATION
npm install react-feather
npm install react-feather // Note: Works with Next.js but note the library is no longer actively maintained. Consider Lucide Icons as a maintained alternative.
// No official Vue package. Use vue-feather community package or SVG files directly.
// No official Svelte package. Use SVG files directly from feathericons.com
npm install feather-icons
CODE EXAMPLES
import { Home, Settings, User } from 'react-feather'
export default function App() {
return (
<div>
<Home size={24} />
<Settings size={24} color="#6366f1" />
<User size={24} strokeWidth={1} />
</div>
)
}import { Bell } from 'react-feather'
export default function Navbar() {
return (
<button className="flex items-center gap-2 text-gray-500">
<Bell className="h-5 w-5" />
<span>Notifications</span>
</button>
)
}// Vanilla JS usage
const feather = require('feather-icons')
feather.replace()
// In HTML:
// <i data-feather="home"></i>