How many alternative icons are there?

472 icons across 70 libraries carry the alternative tag. Counting each design once (a set's outline and filled wallet are one design), that's 448, which is what the wall shows.

What do alternative icons look like?

The designs most libraries draw for alternative are share alt, lock alt, bookmark alt, calendar alt, bus alt and map alt. Search the wall to find a specific one.

Which library has the most alternative icons?

Arcticons has the most, 61 designs, then Google Material Icons (34) and BoxIcons (31). Among the popular sets: Lucide has 16, HeroIcons has 2, Material Symbols has 2 and Tabler Icons has 1. Pick one above the wall to see only its icons.

Can I use alternative icons in commercial projects?

Most of them. Of the 448 alternative designs: 261 are MIT, Apache 2.0, ISC, BSD, OFL or public domain, which allow commercial use with no credit. 100 are CC BY, which asks you to credit the author. 69 are share-alike or copyleft (CC BY-SA, GPL, MPL), so changes keep the license. 18 are for non-commercial use only. Each icon's page names its license, so check it before you ship.

Are these alternative icons free?

Yes. Every alternative icon is free to browse, copy and download here. Pro adds the MCP server, which installs icons for your AI agent.

How do I use alternative icons in React?

Open an icon, then copy it as a typed React component or as SVG for Vue, Svelte, Angular or any design tool, or download it as SVG or PNG. Signed in, you can install it with one shadcn CLI command.

Can I change their color and size?

Yes. On an icon's page, Customize sets the color, size, stroke, rotation and padding, and every copy and download uses them. Multicolor sets keep their own colors.

Can my AI agent find alternative icons for me?

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client search every library and install the alternative icon you describe.

Alternative icons for React.

472 free alternative icons from 70 libraries, Lucide, HeroIcons and Material Symbols among them. Open one to copy it as SVG or React, or install it with the shadcn CLI.

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34 icons · Google Material Icons

All 34 shown

448 designs, one style each
From 70 libraries
58% under permissive licenses
472 icons in every style

Libraries

Alternative icons in each library

How each set draws alternative: share alt, lock alt, bookmark alt and calendar alt and more. Open one to see only its icons.

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