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What is Reicon?

Reicon is an open-source icon library distributed as SVG icons, aimed at both designers and developers. According to its own description, it offers more than 2,700 handcrafted icons and provides formats or integrations for React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Flutter, Figma and other tools.

What that means in practice

• For developers: you get icons as SVG assets plus framework-specific packages, so you can drop them into a React, Angular, Vue or Svelte project without converting files by hand. Flutter support matters if your team ships mobile apps alongside web.
• For designers: the Figma availability means you can place and restyle icons on a canvas, then hand the same set to engineering so both sides work from one visual language.
• For small teams: a single consistent set across web and mobile reduces the "which icon pack did we use here?" problem that shows up when projects borrow from several sources.

How to judge whether it fits

The deciding factors for an icon library are usually coverage, visual consistency and licensing, not raw icon count. Before adopting Reicon, check three things against your own project:

1. Do the icons you actually need exist — navigation, file types, social, commerce, status?
2. Does the stroke weight and corner style match your interface, or will it clash with icons you already use?
3. Does the open-source license fit commercial work, and can you self-host the SVGs?

A quick test: pick ten icons from your current product, search for each in Reicon, and place them next to your existing set in a mock screen. If the mismatch is obvious at that stage, no amount of extra icons will fix it.

For comparison while you evaluate, Lucide and Tabler Icons are established open-source alternatives with similar SVG-plus-framework delivery, which makes them useful benchmarks for coverage and style.

How do I add Reicon icons to a React or Vue project?

Reicon is distributed as an open-source SVG icon library with framework-specific packages, so you install it the same way you would any other icon dependency and then import individual icons into your components.

React

Install the package with your package manager, then import the icon component you need and render it like any other React component. Because icons are imported individually, bundlers such as Vite or webpack can tree-shake unused icons out of your production build — a real advantage over sprite sheets or icon fonts, where you often ship the whole set.

import { SomeIcon } from "reicon-react";

export function SaveButton() {
  return (
    <button>
      <SomeIcon size={20} />
      Save
    </button>
  );
}

Vue

The Vue package works the same way: install it, import the icon into your single-file component, and register or use it directly in the template. If you need the icon in many components, registering it globally in your app entry point avoids repeating imports.

<script setup>
import { SomeIcon } from "reicon-vue";
</script>

<template>
  <SomeIcon :size="20" />
</template>

Choosing between framework packages and raw SVG

Practical next step

Check the framework package's README for the exact import names and available props (size, color, stroke width) before wiring icons into a design system, since prop names and defaults vary between icon libraries. If you only need a handful of icons, copying the raw SVG may be simpler than adding a dependency.

For a broader set of options when Reicon doesn't cover a specific glyph, Lucide and Tabler Icons follow similar open-source, per-icon-import models for React and Vue.

Can I use Reicon icons in Figma for design mockups?

Yes. Reicon is distributed as an open-source SVG icon set with a Figma presence, and the library is described as covering Figma alongside React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, and Flutter. For mockup work, that means the icons can live directly on your Figma canvas rather than being exported and re-imported from a separate file.

How designers typically use it

• Drag from the library: Place icons onto frames as editable vectors, then recolor, resize, or swap strokes without leaving Figma.
• Keep one source of truth: Use the same icon in the mockup and later in the codebase, which reduces mismatches between design and build.
• Match icon to context: With a library in the thousands, you can pick a consistent style across navigation, empty states, and settings screens instead of mixing sets.

Trade-offs to weigh

A practical next step

Build a small Figma page with the 10–15 icons your product actually needs, grouped by function (navigation, actions, status). That gives you a reusable component set and reveals gaps before you design full screens. If you want to compare alternatives, Feather Icons and Lucide are established open-source sets with similar Figma workflows.

What icon formats are included in Reicon?

Reicon provides its icons as SVGs, and the library is packaged for direct use in several development ecosystems rather than as a single generic download. Based on the site's own description, the set covers React, Angular, Vue, Svelte and Flutter, plus a Figma library for designers. In practice, that means the same icon can arrive either as a plain SVG asset or as a framework-ready component, depending on which package you pull in.

What that means per audience

• Designers get the Figma library, which is the practical route if you need to place, resize and recolor icons on a canvas without exporting files by hand.
• Web developers get components for React, Angular, Vue and Svelte, so icons can be imported like any other module and styled with the surrounding CSS or component props.
• App developers get a Flutter package, useful when the same visual language needs to carry from a web build into a mobile one.
• Everyone else can use the raw SVG files, which is the fallback for static sites, email templates, server-rendered pages or any stack not on that list.

A quick comparison

How to decide

If you are starting a React project, use the React package and skip manual SVG handling — you get tree-shaking and prop-based styling for free. If your project mixes stacks, or you are prototyping in plain HTML, take the SVG files instead; they are the most portable option and will not lock you into a framework.

A useful next step: check the package for your specific framework and confirm the icon count and naming conventions match what your team already uses, since switching icon sets later is mostly a find-and-replace problem. If you want to compare alternatives, Lucide and Heroicons cover similar ground with their own framework packages.

How does Reicon compare to other open-source icon libraries?

Reicon positions itself as a large, framework-friendly open-source SVG icon set: the site describes 2,700+ handcrafted icons with support for React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, Flutter, Figma and more. That combination—broad framework coverage plus a Figma path—is its main differentiator. Where many icon libraries are strong in one ecosystem (React-only, or design-tool-only), Reicon aims to serve designers and developers from the same source set.

How it tends to compare

Practical trade-offs

A larger count is not automatically better. Above roughly a few thousand icons, the harder problems become naming consistency, style coherence, and how easily you can find the right glyph. A "handcrafted" claim matters most when you need visual uniformity across an entire product.

Framework breadth helps mixed teams. If your stack includes, say, a Vue web app and a Flutter mobile app, one library covering both reduces the number of visual languages you maintain.

What to check before committing

1. License terms — confirm the exact license permits your commercial use and modification.
2. Style fit — preview icons at your real UI sizes (16px, 24px), not just large previews.
3. Update cadence — an actively maintained set ages better than a frozen one.
4. Tree-shaking — for React/Vue/Svelte, verify you can import individual icons so bundles stay small.
5. Search and naming — test whether you can find icons by intent ("delete", "warning") quickly.

A useful next step

Pick five icons you actually need for a current screen, then pull them from Reicon and one or two alternatives at your target size and compare stroke weight, corner radius and optical balance side by side. That single test usually settles the choice faster than feature lists. For a broader baseline, established sets like Feather Icons (minimal, small count) and Lucide (large, actively maintained) are worth including in the comparison.

Is Reicon free for commercial use?

Reicon is presented as a free, open-source SVG icon library, and nothing on its page indicates a paid tier, license fee, or commercial-use restriction. That points to yes: you can use the icons in commercial projects. Still, “free to use” and “free to use however you like” are not the same thing, so check the license file in the repository before shipping.

What to verify before you rely on it

• The actual license text. Open-source icon sets commonly use MIT, Apache 2.0, or CC0. MIT and Apache permit commercial use with attribution requirements; some Creative Commons variants restrict commercial use or require share-alike.
• Attribution rules. Even permissive licenses may ask you to keep a copyright notice in your project or documentation.
• Trademark and logo icons. Brand marks inside a general icon set are usually excluded from the open license and need separate permission from the brand owner.
• Redistribution. If you repackage the icons into your own library or design system, the license terms matter more than they do for ordinary app or website use.

A practical scenario

A freelance designer building a client dashboard can typically drop Reicon icons into the UI without paying. A developer bundling the set into a commercial component library that they then sell is a different case: that is redistribution, and the license governs whether it is allowed and what notices must be included.

Next step

Open the Reicon repository and read the LICENSE file, then check whether the specific icons you plan to use are original artwork or third-party brand marks. If the license is MIT or Apache 2.0, commercial use is fine with attribution; if it is a non-commercial Creative Commons variant, you need a different set. For a comparison point, Lucide and Tabler Icons are other open-source icon libraries whose licenses are stated plainly on their sites.