Icons sources for developers
If you are a developer than probably you might not necessarily be good at designing icons from scratch, in this case you require some sources that provide you icons in the form of web font.
Here are some of the best websites that provide icons for developers.
1 –Font awesome
Link: https://fontawesome.com/
Font awesome offers hundreds of icons that are designed by professionals for developers.
There are different ways of using font awesome, one of them is to paste CDN for font awesome in the head tag of your website, now you will be able to show icons on your website by just copying the html code. You will have the chance to change the size of icons. Using npm will allow to customize it’s css.
2 – Simple Icons
Link: https://simpleicons.org/
Simple icons are the icons for popular brands and companies. This website has more than 1800 icons of most popular brands.
As a developer of a website you might have faced the problem with representing brand logos on our website where you need to show some brands as their clients or partners of your client, in this case simple icons is very helpful for you. Simple icons allows to add icons of brands and companies as you add icons of font awesome.
3 –Hero icons
Hero icons are designed by a developer Zaydek(https://twitter.com/username_ZAYDEK). You can copy icon in the form of svg and JSX.
These icons have different styles as well. These are unique and modern looking icons with search option to choose the required one.
Link: https://heroicons.dev/
4 –Bootstrap icons
Bootstrap is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) developed by twitter’s developers. It has more than 1300 icons that you can download or embed in your websites.
Bootstrap icons are mainly focused to be used on website but it is also good source for UI designers. You can download icons in the form of svg.
You can use these icons with or without bootstrap (meaning you can use these icons even if your website is being developed with other platforms like WordPress or Html Css etc).
5– Iconfinder
Icon finder has more than 5M icons available in many formats including web font. It is go to source for designers and developers.
If you want access to the entire font library you will require to be a pro member by paying 9$/month or if you don’t want the membership you can download icon for the price of 2$/per icon without being monthly subscriber.
