Simple Icons review
A focused, developer-friendly library for adding recognizable brand marks to digital products.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Simple Icons is an open-source library of brand logos for developers and designers adding recognizable marks to websites, applications, and other digital products. Icons can be browsed and downloaded from the project website, used as SVG files, served through CDN URLs, consumed through npm and Packagist, or included through a distributable icon font. Its strongest fit is a project that needs broad brand coverage rather than a general-purpose symbol library.
The delivery options make Simple Icons adaptable across different implementation styles. The project supports web and API access, SVG, icon font, and CSS through CDN delivery. Developers can use jsDelivr, unpkg, or the Simple Icons CDN, with customizable CDN output for icon color, dark-mode color, size, and viewBox. Filtered custom icon-font builds can also reduce a font package to the marks a project needs. This breadth is useful for teams that want to choose between direct assets, package-based workflows, CDN delivery, and font-based interfaces.
Simple Icons is free and open source, with commercial use verified for the project. Its metadata can include brand colors, source links, guidelines, and per-icon license information where available, giving teams a practical starting point for review. However, individual brand icons may carry separate licenses or trademark restrictions, so each selected mark still needs attention to its metadata and applicable brand guidelines. Choose Simple Icons when brand recognition and delivery flexibility matter most; choose another library when the primary requirement is a broad set of non-brand interface icons or a centrally standardized visual system.
Simple Icons pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Broad brand-focused collection with SVG and icon font formats
- CDN, npm, Packagist, and API access support flexible delivery
- Per-icon metadata, colors, guidelines, and license details where available
- Where it doesn't
- Individual brand icons may have separate licenses and trademark restrictions
- Focused on brand marks rather than general-purpose iconography
- Custom font builds and CDN output require implementation work
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