# 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 is 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](https://xiry.app/topics/design.md)
- 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, 17 September 2024](https://x.com/zander_supafast/status/1836024015778918554): Saves design time and gives polished, consistent icon sets.

## Compare

- [Alternatives to Font Awesome](https://xiry.app/alternatives/font-awesome.md)

## Related

- [Hugeicons](https://xiry.app/resources/hugeicons): Library of over 60,000 icons across multiple visual styles (Website, Freemium)
- [Iconhub](https://xiry.app/resources/iconhub): Customizable free icon collection across multiple styles and categories (Website, Free)
- [Iconoir](https://xiry.app/resources/iconoir): Open-source icon library available across web frameworks, design tools, and SVG (Website, Free)
- [Keyline Icons](https://xiry.app/resources/keyline-icons): Free MIT-licensed icon library with four styles and two corner variants. (Website, Free)
- [Mage Icons](https://xiry.app/resources/mage-icons): Open-source icon system available for personal and commercial projects. (Website, Open source)
- [Phosphor Icons](https://xiry.app/resources/phosphor-icons): Flexible, open-source icon family with thousands of icons across multiple weights (Website, Open source)

Updated 11 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/stop-designing-custom-icons

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