Design · Tip
Stop Designing Custom Icons
Design tip advising using established icon libraries over hand-crafting vector icons
This design workflow tip recommends against spending time manually drawing common vector icons in Figma or other UI tools. It points designers toward polished, consistent libraries like Hugeicons, Lucide, and Heroicons to save time and maintain visual consistency across projects.
How it works
Video argument: don't design custom icons from scratch (demo shows hand-editing a house icon's vector points); use free icon libraries instead. Libraries shown: Huge Icons (hugeicons.com), Lucide (lucide.dev/icons), Heroicons (heroicons.com).
What it's for
- Speed up UI design sprints by avoiding custom vector drawing
- Maintain visual consistency across interface icons in web and mobile apps
- Find ready-to-use vector icon sets for new design systems
Key points
- Recommends Hugeicons for extensive UI icon sets
- Recommends Lucide for clean, open-source icons
- Recommends Heroicons for Tailwind-friendly UI designs
- Emphasizes workflow efficiency over redundant manual vector work
Pricing
Free
Details
- Type
- Tip
- Category
- Design
- Topic
- Icon Sets
- Platforms
- Web, other
- For
- UI/UX designers and front-end developers
- Alternative to
- Font Awesome, Material Icons
- Tags
- icons, figma, ui design, design tips, vector graphics, heroicons, lucide
Why it was saved
- @zander_supafast: Saves design time and gives polished, consistent icon sets.
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