What Is Icônes (icones.js.org)?

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Icônes is a web-based icon browser and search tool that aggregates many open-source icon sets into a single interface. It is aimed at designers and developers who need to find, preview, and copy icons quickly. You can use it in a browser without creating an account.

What Icônes Does

Icônes solves a common problem: icon sets are scattered across separate projects, each with its own naming, formats, and search. Instead of visiting each collection individually, you search one place and get results across all of them.

Its core functions are:

  • Unified search across many icon collections at once
  • Live preview of each icon at a usable size
  • Copy options so you can take the icon into your project
  • Collection browsing when you want to explore a specific icon set

Who It Is For

User Typical task
UI/UX designer Find a consistent icon for a mockup or design system
Front-end developer Grab an SVG or icon name for a component
Content creator Add a simple visual symbol to a page or slide

If you only ever use one icon library and already know its names, Icônes adds less value. It becomes useful when you want to compare styles or search across libraries.

How to Use It

  1. Open icones.js.org in a browser.
  2. Type a term such as home, user, or arrow into the search field.
  3. Browse the results, which are grouped by icon collection.
  4. Select an icon to see its available formats and copy options.
  5. Copy the SVG, the icon name, or the code snippet into your project.

The expected result is that you leave with an icon asset or identifier you can paste directly into your work, without downloading or installing anything.

Key Things to Know

  • It is a browser tool, not a package. You use it to find and copy icons; you still add them to your project yourself.
  • Collections are open source. The icons come from third-party libraries, so licensing follows each original set. Check the source collection's license before commercial use.
  • No account is required for the browsing and copying workflow described above.
  • Availability depends on the collections it indexes. If a specific icon set is not included, you will not find it here.

When to Use Something Else

Choose a dedicated icon package or your framework's built-in icon component when you need versioned dependencies, tree-shaking, or automated updates in a build pipeline. Use Icônes when the priority is fast visual search and one-off copying.