IonIcons
Premium, carefully designed icons for mobile, desktop, and web applications
STATS
OVERVIEW
IonIcons is an exceptionally polished, open-source icon pack designed by the Ionic Framework team. Built primarily for developers creating premium mobile and web interfaces, it contains over 1,300 icons that feel right at home in modern iOS, Android, and web products.
The library is unique in providing three distinct design styles for every single icon: Outline, Filled, and Sharp. Outline icons use thin strokes, Filled icons provide bold visual weight for active tabs or selections, and Sharp icons feature crisp, non-rounded edges suitable for technical dashboards and heavy-contrast visual grids.
Although maintained by the Ionic team, IonIcons is entirely framework-agnostic. The official react-ionicons and ionicons NPM libraries provide full tree-shaking and modern TypeScript typings, rendering clean inline SVGs without layout blocking. SVGs use the standard currentColor attribute to inherit styling colors dynamically.
// VERDICTIonIcons is a top-tier alternative to Google's Material Icons. It delivers a cleaner, more contemporary look. The presence of iOS-inspired rounded outlines and Android-inspired sharp options makes it the ultimate library if you are building responsive, multi-platform hybrid React Native or web applications.
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 IonIcons 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-ionicons
npm install react-ionicons // Note: Fully compatible with Next.js Server Components. Can be dynamically imported to eliminate layout shift or used natively in client wrappers for interactive hover effects.
// No official Vue wrapper — render raw SVGs or use Iconify prefix 'ion:' instead
// No official Svelte package — use raw SVG or Iconify component
npm install ionicons // Load directly via CDN in HTML: <script type='module' src='https://unpkg.com/ionicons@7.1.0/dist/ionicons/ionicons.esm.js'></script>
CODE EXAMPLES
import { HomeOutline, BellOutline, PersonOutline } from 'react-ionicons'
export default function App() {
return (
<div style={{ display: 'flex', gap: '16px' }}>
<HomeOutline color={'#000000'} height="24px" width="24px" />
<BellOutline color={'#6366f1'} height="24px" width="24px" />
<PersonOutline color={'#6b7280'} height="24px" width="24px" />
</div>
)
}// Filled variants are ideal for navigation active states
import { Home, HomeOutline } from 'react-ionicons'
export default function Tab({ isActive }) {
return (
<button>
{isActive ? (
<Home color={'#818cf8'} height="24px" width="24px" />
) : (
<HomeOutline color={'#6b7280'} height="24px" width="24px" />
)}
<span>Home</span>
</button>
)
}// Use Sharp variants for rigid layouts or technical grids
import { BarChartSharp, SettingsSharp } from 'react-ionicons'
export default function TechnicalDashboard() {
return (
<div>
<BarChartSharp color={'#10b981'} height="20px" width="20px" />
<SettingsSharp color={'#ec4899'} height="20px" width="20px" />
</div>
)
}