// 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◆ 1,400 iconsISC

A clean, consistent open-source icon library with 1400+ icons, forked from Feather Icons with active maintenance and TypeScript support.

npm install lucide-react

#2

Heroicons

MADE BY TAILWIND TEAM

⭐ 21,000◆ 292 iconsMIT

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS. Available in outline and solid styles with 292 icons.

npm install @heroicons/react

#3

Tabler Icons

⭐ 18,000◆ 5,500 iconsMIT

Over 5500 free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons. One of the largest free icon libraries available for web projects.

npm install @tabler/icons-react

#4

Phosphor Icons

⭐ 8,000◆ 1,248 iconsMIT

Flexible icon family with 6 weights including thin, light, regular, bold, fill and duotone. Over 1200 icons available.

npm install @phosphor-icons/react

#5

Remix Icon

⭐ 6,000◆ 2,800 iconsApache 2.0

Open-source neutral-style system symbols for designers and developers. Over 2800 icons in line and fill styles.

npm install remixicon

#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

#7

Bootstrap Icons

⭐ 7,000◆ 1,800 iconsMIT

Free, high quality, open source icon library with over 1800 icons. Designed by the Bootstrap team.

npm install bootstrap-icons

#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

POPULAR COMPARISONS

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