Illustration sources, Icon libraries

Knowledgebase
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List of icon databases and illustration sources:

:free_button: Completely Free (Open-Source)

Utility & System (UX/UI)

  • Tabler Icons - 5,000+ clean, customizable SVG icons; great for dense dashboards.
  • Lucide - Community-run fork of Feather; very consistent. These are the icons used by the Obsidian.md user interface.
  • Heroicons - High-quality MIT-licensed icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS; optimized for modern web layouts.
  • Remix Icon - Over 2,400 open-source, neutral-style system symbols; excellent coverage for niche UI needs.
  • Phosphor Icons - Flexible family with 6 distinct weights (Thin to Duotone); very popular for clean, rounded aesthetics.
  • Vivid - Colorful, multi-tone utility icons that add a pop of personality to interfaces.
  • Boxicons - High-quality web icons with a slightly “chunkier” feel, great for readability.

Expressive & Concept (Storytelling)

  • OpenMoji - Comprehensive open-source emoji set; great for informal communication and stick-figure styles.
  • Emojipedia - Reference and source for standard emoji graphics across all platforms.
  • Quick, Draw! Data - Massive dataset of hand-drawn doodles by real people. Unique “sketch” aesthetic for raw, human-centric storytelling.
  • SVG Repo - A powerful search engine for 500,000+ open-licensed vectors. Best place to find specific logos or niche concept art for free.

Tools & Converters

  • SVGcode - PWA tool to convert raster images to SVG code. Works best for simple shapes; struggles with complex or noisy bitmaps.

:credit_card: Freemium / Paid (Premium options)

Professional Utility (UX/UI)

  • Hugeicons - High-end library with 5,100+ free stroke icons and a massive 51,000+ Pro icon set.
  • Unicons - 4,500+ free vectors; the paid tier unlocks 3D, animated assets, and lottie files.
  • Font Awesome - The industry veteran; vast library where the most specialized or “trendy” styles are locked behind a Pro sub.
  • Streamline - Highly curated, designer-made sets. Their “Freehand” and “Brooklyn” styles are top-tier for premium branding.
  • Icons.theforgesmith - Distinctive, character-filled sets that often require a license for full project integration.

Massive Repositories (Storytelling & Variety)

  • The Noun Project - The world’s most diverse icon creator community; free with attribution, or paid for “drag-and-drop” desktop app use.
  • Flaticon - The largest database in the world. Excellent for finding “story” packs in matching styles (e.g., 50 icons about ‘Camping’). Paid for SVG/No-Attribution.
  • Freepik Icons - Huge volume of illustrative icons. Best for marketing materials where you need a mix of icons and full illustrations.
  • Storyset - Highly customizable, themed illustrations. You can animate them on the site and export as SVG/GIF for web storytelling.
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If I may, I clicked through all the links listed here. But only 2 of them weren’t their correct links I believe. “Vivid” leads to GitHub’s docs, and “Quick, Draw! Data” opens Google instead. Just thought I would point out so the links could be corrected.

Thank you by the way for sharing these resources with us. @Zsolt

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Thanks! This is a wiki note. You can actually edit it. Feel free to give it a try. I’ll check back later, giving you time to play with this if you want.

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Ok, done. Didn’t know we could edit other’s posts. You may check to see if they are the correct links.

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Only in the wiki, you can. It is of course logged.

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