Heroicons

Description

Handcrafted SVG icons by the creators of Tailwind CSS.

What is Heroicons

Heroicons is a hand-crafted SVG icon set produced by the Tailwind CSS team. It offers three styles — outline, solid, and mini — with common sizes of 24×24 and 20×20. The collection isn’t large, but each icon shares a consistent look and feel that closely matches Tailwind’s design philosophy.

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How to use Heroicons

Using Heroicons is absolutely delightful! The simplest method is directly copying SVG code and pasting it into your HTML.

Quick Start:

Visit heroicons.com and browse all icons
Click your favorite icon, choose style (Outline/Solid/Mini)
Copy SVG code or download file
Paste into your project

Framework Integration:

For React users, just install @heroicons/react:

npm install @heroicons/react

Then import and use like this:

import { BeakerIcon } from '@heroicons/react/24/solid'

function MyComponent() {
  return 
}

Vue users also have the @heroicons/vue package. Best part is tree-shaking support - only bundles icons you actually use!

Heroicons Key Features

Handcrafted Excellence

Every icon is meticulously hand-drawn SVG by the Tailwind team, artwork-quality, definitely not mass-produced junk.

Three Complete Styles

Outline, Solid, Mini styles in 24x24 and 20x20 sizes, covering all usage scenarios.

Native Framework Support

Provides component packages for React, Vue and other mainstream frameworks, TypeScript support, tree-shaking optimization, first-class developer experience.

Tailwind DNA

Natural pairing with Tailwind CSS, completely aligned design philosophy, seamless integration.

Pixel-Perfect Precision

Every icon is pixel-level adjusted to ensure perfect display at any size.

Completely Open Source

MIT license, use freely in commercial projects without restrictions - quite rare among high-quality icon libraries.

Heroicons Use Cases

Tailwind CSS Projects

This is the perfect match! If your project uses Tailwind, Heroicons is definitely the first choice. Highly aligned design philosophy with seamless integration.

Premium Product Interfaces

Products pursuing ultimate visual quality, like SaaS platforms, financial apps, design tools - Heroicons' refinement is fully worthy.

Modern Frontend Frameworks

Perfect choice for React, Vue, Angular projects with official component packages, TypeScript support, first-class developer experience.

Enterprise Design Systems

As foundation icon library for enterprise design systems, unified style and reliable quality ensure visual consistency across products.

Brand-Level Projects

Projects with extremely high visual quality requirements, like brand websites, premium e-commerce, art platforms - every detail needs perfection.

Heroicons Pros & Cons

Pros

Extremely high icon quality, handcrafted

Highly unified style with exquisite visuals

Perfect integration with Tailwind CSS

Provides component packages for multiple frameworks

Completely free and open source

Performance optimized with tree-shaking support

Pixel-perfect alignment

Quality guaranteed by Tailwind team

Cons

Relatively fewer icons (288 total)

Update frequency not very high

Relatively single style

May not find suitable icons for some special scenarios

Heroicons FAQ

Q1: What makes Heroicons different from other icon libraries?

Heroicons' biggest feature is extremely high quality - every icon is handcrafted SVG with perfect Tailwind CSS integration. While not numerous, each is a masterpiece.

Q2: How to use in React projects?

Install @heroicons/react package, then directly import and use needed icon components. Supports TypeScript and tree-shaking optimization.

Q3: What's the difference between the three icon styles?

Outline (24x24) suits clean interfaces, Solid (24x24) suits emphasis scenarios, Mini (20x20) suits space-constrained areas.

Q4: Can icon colors be customized?

Absolutely! Icons use currentColor, controllable through CSS color property or Tailwind's text color classes.

Q5: Will the icon count continue to grow?

The Tailwind team gradually adds new icons based on community needs and design standards, but they focus more on quality than quantity - each new icon undergoes strict design review.