Iconify MDI
Material Design Icons in standardized Iconify JSON format for icon systems.
UI components and icons npm Apache-2.0
How Iconify MDI is used
Iconify MDI is a dependency in 12 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 21 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is React Icons (173 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Vue (52.4%), Tailwind CSS (76.2%), Sass (42.9%).
Iconify MDI popularity over time
Gid Score 39: downloads 50, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars n/a, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Iconify MDI
| Vue | 52.4% of Iconify MDI projects · 19.4× more than average |
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| Tailwind CSS | 76.2% of Iconify MDI projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Sass | 42.9% of Iconify MDI projects · 24.6× more than average |
| Iconify | 38.1% of Iconify MDI projects · 84.5× more than average |
| ESLint | 71.4% of Iconify MDI projects · 2.0× more than average |
| TypeScript | 85.7% of Iconify MDI projects · 1.6× more than average |
| Astro | 33.3% of Iconify MDI projects · 17.8× more than average |
| Astro Icon | 33.3% of Iconify MDI projects · 172.4× more than average |
From all 21 projects in our scan that use Iconify MDI, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
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Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Iconify MDI as a dependency.
How Iconify MDI is funded
Open Collective: Iconify
| Received, last 12 months | $897 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
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| Estimated annual budget | $930 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $711 |
| Raised since the start | $2,173 · $1,463 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $63 · $64 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -5% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 5 |
Top company backers all time
| Rad Web Hosting | $5 since Nov 2025 |
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Apr 2024Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Apr 2024. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: Iconify, Iconify Simple Icons.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @cyberalien | 20 current sponsors |
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GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Iconify, Iconify Simple Icons.
Ways to fund Iconify MDI
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install @iconify-json/mdi |
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| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (20), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | sugarforever/chat-ollama, ChenyCHENYU/Robot_Admin, Asvarox/allkaraoke, devstack-be/nuxt-saas-stripe-starter, gxr404/blockchain-tool |
Alternatives to Iconify MDI
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Iconify MDI are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React Icons npm Popular icon packs imported as React components with ES6. |
70 | 173 (3.6%) | 5.1M | 12.7K | MIT |
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