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~1,600 icons on one 24px grid at one stroke weight — the cheapest way to stop looking like four separate afternoons.
Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 26 Oct 2026, one day before this check.
Latest release 1.61.0 on 21 Oct 2026.
Public since June 2020, a little over 6 years.
25,310 stars and 1,662 forks.
297 commits and 80 new issues in the last 90 days.
428 contributors. 297 pull requests merged in 90 days.
No security policy file says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub. Covered in Edition 12.
▶Repo detailsthe review · specs · pros & cons · install
What it does
Lucide ships outline icons drawn on a consistent grid with a single line thickness, so any two of them sit beside each other without looking mismatched. Separate packages exist for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Preact and plain HTML, and the raw SVG files are published too. SVG means the picture is described as lines and shapes rather than pixels, so it stays sharp at any size and can be recoloured in CSS. The imports are tree-shakeable, meaning only the icons actually used end up in the finished download. The project is the community-maintained fork of Feather Icons and is the default icon set used by shadcn/ui. Version 1.59.0 was published on 17 October 2026, and code landed in the repository the same day. It is an icon set and nothing more: there are no filled or duotone variants, no illustration library, and no tool for drawing new icons in the same style.
Why it matters
Who it suits. Any project whose icons were collected from three different places over two years, which readers register as carelessness without being able to name why. It also suits anyone who needs the same icons in an application, on a marketing page and inside a video graphic, because the SVG files work in all three. Skip it if the design calls for filled or two-tone icons, because this set is outline only.
Verdict. Five minutes, and one of the cheapest visible improvements available. The real limit arrives later: eventually a project needs an icon the set does not have, and drawing a matching one is a genuine skill. Keep a note of which icons were missing, because that list is the argument for commissioning a few. If the set is too small, tabler/tabler-icons has over 6,100 icons under the same licence terms.
Summary (Key Points)from the README
Key features
- Large icon set: Provides 1600+ vector (SVG) icon files for digital and non-digital projects.
- Framework packages: Official packages include lucide-react, @lucide/vue, @lucide/svelte, lucide-solid, lucide-preact, lucide-react-native, @lucide/angular and @lucide/astro.
- Static SVG package: lucide-static offers the icons as plain SVG files for use outside a component framework.
- Figma plugin: An official Lucide plugin is available from the Figma community page for designers.
- Free use: The library is free for both commercial and personal use under the ISC License.
- Open contribution: Contribution guidelines are published, and documentation pages can be edited on GitHub.
- Community support: A Discord server is available for community discussion.
Important
- No brand logos: The project does not accept brand logos and does not plan to add them, citing legal restrictions, design consistency and maintenance concerns.
Written by an AI model from the project’s README; not part of the review, and it can be wrong.
- One visual system across an application, a website and any video or slide graphics.
- Tree-shakeable, and the ISC licence is as permissive as MIT.
- Releases land roughly weekly, so gaps in the set get filled.
- Outline style only, with no filled or duotone variants, which limits visual emphasis.
- Importing the whole package rather than named icons quietly inflates the download.
- Sooner or later an icon is missing, and matching the style by hand is harder than it looks.
npm i lucide-react # React npm i lucide-vue-next # Vue 3 npm i lucide-svelte # Svelte npm i lucide # plain HTML and JavaScript
