// TAILWIND CSS

Best Icon Libraries
for Tailwind CSS (2026)

All icon libraries below accept className props and work seamlessly with Tailwind utility classes for sizing, color, and spacing.

// TL;DR — Heroicons is made by the Tailwind team. Lucide is the best general alternative.

HOW ICONS WORK WITH TAILWIND

Icons that accept className props use currentColor for their stroke or fill. This means you control color with Tailwind text utilities and size with width/height utilities.

// Lucide with Tailwind
<Home className="h-5 w-5 text-blue-500" />
<Settings className="h-6 w-6 text-gray-400 hover:text-gray-600" />

// Heroicons with Tailwind  
<HomeIcon className="h-6 w-6 text-indigo-500" />
<BellIcon className="h-5 w-5 text-gray-300" />

ALL TAILWIND-COMPATIBLE LIBRARIES

#1

Lucide Icons

⭐ 12,000◆ 1,960 iconsISC

A clean, consistent open-source icon library with 1960+ icons, forked from Feather Icons with active maintenance and TypeScript support.

npm install lucide-react
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#2

Heroicons

MADE BY TAILWIND TEAM
⭐ 21,000◆ 324 iconsMIT

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS. Available in outline and solid styles with 324 icons.

npm install @heroicons/react
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#3

Tabler Icons

⭐ 18,000◆ 6,147 iconsMIT

Over 6100 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons. One of the largest free icon libraries available for web projects.

npm install @tabler/icons-react
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#4

Phosphor Icons

⭐ 8,000◆ 1,533 iconsMIT

Flexible icon family with 6 weights including thin, light, regular, bold, fill and duotone. Over 1500 icons available.

npm install @phosphor-icons/react
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#5

Remix Icon

⭐ 6,000◆ 3,229 iconsApache 2.0

Open-source neutral-style system symbols for designers and developers. Over 3200 icons in line and fill styles.

npm install remixicon
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#6

Feather Icons

⭐ 24,000◆ 287 iconsMIT

Simply beautiful open source icons designed on a 24x24 grid with an emphasis on simplicity, consistency and readability.

npm install react-feather
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#7

Bootstrap Icons

⭐ 7,000◆ 2,078 iconsMIT

Free, high quality, open source icon library with over 2000 icons. Designed by the Bootstrap team.

npm install bootstrap-icons
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#8

Radix Icons

⭐ 5,000◆ 318 iconsMIT

A crisp set of 15x15 icons designed by the WorkOS team. Perfectly sized for dense UIs and dashboards.

npm install @radix-ui/react-icons
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#9

Font Awesome

⭐ 76,500◆ 2,058 iconsMixed (CC BY 4.0 free icons, MIT code)

The internet's most popular icon library with 2,000+ free icons and 16,000+ Pro icons. Used by millions of websites worldwide. Available as SVG components for React with the official @fortawesome/react-fontawesome package.

npm install @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core @fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons @fortawesome/react-fontawesome
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#10

React Icons

⭐ 11,500◆ 52,000 iconsMIT

One package, 52,000+ icons. Aggregates Font Awesome, Material Design, Heroicons, Tabler, Feather, Bootstrap Icons, and 20+ more icon sets under a single unified React API.

npm install react-icons
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#11

Material Icons

⭐ 98,300◆ 2,100 iconsMIT

Google's official Material Design icon library for React. 2,100+ icons across 5 styles — Filled, Outlined, Rounded, Sharp, and TwoTone. The most downloaded React icon package with 5.1M weekly npm installs. Requires @mui/material as a peer dependency.

npm install @mui/icons-material @mui/material @emotion/styled @emotion/react
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#12

Iconify

⭐ 5,162◆ 350,000 iconsMIT (framework) — icon sets retain their original licenses

One framework, 350,000+ icons across 211 open source icon sets. Access Lucide, Material Design, Font Awesome, Tabler, Heroicons, Phosphor, Bootstrap Icons, Simple Icons, and 200+ more through one unified <Icon> component with a prefix:name syntax. Official packages for React, Vue, Svelte, SolidJS, and vanilla HTML.

npm install @iconify/react
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#13

Simple Icons

⭐ 25,047◆ 3,200 iconsCC0 1.0 (Public Domain)

3,200 free SVG brand icons for every major technology company, social platform, and developer tool. GitHub, Stripe, Vercel, AWS, Figma, Linear, and thousands more. CC0 public domain — no attribution required. The largest free brand icon library available, with 25K GitHub stars and official brand colors included for every icon.

npm install @icons-pack/react-simple-icons
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#14

Iconoir

⭐ 5,200◆ 1,384 iconsMIT

A high-quality, open-source icon library featuring over 1,300 meticulously crafted line icons. Highly consistent, premium aesthetic perfect for modern UIs.

npm install iconoir-react
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#15

IonIcons

⭐ 17,200◆ 1,300 iconsMIT

Premium, carefully designed icons by the Ionic Framework team. Provides Outline, Filled, and Sharp variants with over 1300 icons for responsive mobile and web apps.

npm install react-ionicons
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#16

Octicons

⭐ 10,400◆ 280 iconsMIT

GitHub's official icon set designed specifically for developer dashboards, code repositories, git histories, and developer utilities.

npm install @primer/octicons-react
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#17

Ant Design Icons

⭐ 8,700◆ 840 iconsMIT

The official icon set for Ant Design (AntD), featuring over 800 highly consistent icons in Outlined, Filled, and TwoTone themes for enterprise UIs.

npm install @ant-design/icons
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POPULAR COMPARISONS

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