Feather Icons

Feather is an open-source icon set of 280+ beautifully simple, minimalist SVG icons — designed to be versatile across applications with consistent feather-light line weight and a clean aesthetic.

What Makes Feather Icons Stand Out

MIT licensed — free for any use. Consistent feather-light aesthetic across all icons

Available as a JavaScript package or SVG download

Pricing and Plans

Feather Icons is free and open-source — you can use it without any licensing cost, audit the code, and self-host it for complete data control.

Who Should Use Feather Icons

Feather Icons is best for teams and individuals who need icon sets capabilities and where mit licensed — free for any use. It may not be the right fit when fewer icons than larger sets like material icons.

Verdict

Feather Icons delivers on its core promise as a icon sets tool. Feather is an open-source icon set of 280+ beautifully simple, minimalist SVG icons — designed to be... For teams evaluating icon sets options, Feather Icons is worth considering based on its specific strengths and how they align with your requirements.

Icon Count vs. Completeness

Feather's 286 icons cover the most essential interface icons without the bloat of larger sets — the curation is a feature rather than a limitation. For teams who find themselves using only 40-50 icons from a 1,000+ icon library, Feather's smaller set with consistent quality is preferable to a larger set of uneven quality.

SVG Optimization

Feather's SVGs are well-optimized: no unnecessary transforms, consistent viewBox, and minimal path complexity that results in small file sizes. For performance-conscious applications that inline SVGs rather than using icon fonts, Feather's optimized SVGs add minimal page weight per icon.

Overall rating: 4.3 / 5

Feather Icons is the open-source icon library known for its clean, minimalist design — 286 icons in a consistent line style designed by Cole Bemis, available as SVG or as JavaScript/React/Vue components, under the MIT license for commercial use.

The Clean Line Icon Aesthetic

Feather's design is recognizable: uniform 2px stroke width, rounded line caps, clean geometric construction on a 24px grid. The consistency is the library's primary value — every icon feels like it belongs in the same family, enabling mixing icons freely across a UI without visual inconsistency.

This consistency distinguishes Feather from icon sets assembled from multiple designers or sources, where mixing icons from different subcategories produces noticeable style variations.

JavaScript Package and Framework Support

Feather Icons' JavaScript package (feather-icons) enables dynamically injecting SVGs into HTML via feather.replace() — replacing data-feather="icon-name" HTML attributes with the correct SVG at runtime. Framework components for React, Vue, and Angular handle the same replacement in component-based architectures.

Feather vs. Lucide

Lucide is a community fork of Feather with more icons and more active development — Feather's development has slowed while Lucide continues adding icons and improving framework components. For new projects, Lucide is generally recommended as the active successor; Feather remains stable for existing projects and teams that prefer the more curated 286-icon set.

Overall rating: 4.3 / 5