Simple Icons
1600+ SVG icons for popular brands and services in a simple, consistent format.
UI components and icons npm CC0-1.0
How Simple Icons is used
Simple Icons is a dependency in 15 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 29 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Lucide React (1,244 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Next.js (79.3%), React (89.7%), Tailwind CSS (89.7%).
Simple Icons popularity over time
Gid Score 59: downloads 64, use in agent projects 33, GitHub stars 66, downloads trend 77 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Simple Icons
| Next.js | 79.3% of Simple Icons projects · 4.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| React | 89.7% of Simple Icons projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 89.7% of Simple Icons projects · 2.7× more than average |
| ESLint | 89.7% of Simple Icons projects · 2.5× more than average |
| Lucide React | 65.5% of Simple Icons projects · 3.3× more than average |
| next-themes | 51.7% of Simple Icons projects · 5.6× more than average |
| Recharts | 44.8% of Simple Icons projects · 4.9× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 44.8% of Simple Icons projects · 5.6× more than average |
From all 29 projects in our scan that use Simple Icons, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Simple Icons as a dependency.
How Simple Icons is funded
Open Collective: Simple Icons
| Received, last 12 months | $196 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $185 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $1,343 |
| Raised since the start | $1,650 · $306 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $17 · $22 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -57% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 3 |
Top company backers all time
| Rad Web Hosting | $2 since Aug 2025 |
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Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in May 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund Simple Icons
Open Collective GitHub Sponsors
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub and in the npm package. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install simple-icons |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (23), TypeScript / JavaScript (3), Python (2), Rust (1) |
| Example projects | SunkenInTime/which-ai, wahyudesu/bisa-website-app, thereactfoundation/react.foundation, boffti/stardash |
Alternatives to Simple Icons
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Simple Icons are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucide React npm Comprehensive icon library with consistent design for React applications. |
86 | 1,244 (25.8%) | 67.1M | 25.2K | ISC |
| 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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