react-simple-icons turns brand logos into tree-shakeable React components

One component per icon, and a file per component

The package description is plain: it provides the Simple Icons set packaged as a set of React components. The upstream version it packages is stated in the README, Simple Icons 16.28.0, and the project documentation links to the upstream release tag so you can see exactly which set you are getting.

What matters for an application is the packaging. The exports map in the package manifest exposes the root entry with types, import and require conditions, and separately exposes a pattern for per-icon modules at ./icons/*.mjs, ./icons/*.cjs and a wildcard entry with types. That means you can import a single icon from its own module path instead of pulling the whole set through the barrel file.

The manifest also marks the package sideEffects as false, so a bundler can drop the icons you never reference. For a set of several thousand brand logos, that is the difference between shipping a few kilobytes and shipping a few megabytes, and it is the main reason to prefer a generated component package over an icon font or a folder of hand-copied SVGs.

The files list confirms the layout, shipping the src/icons directory, the built icons directory and the entry point files in CommonJS, ESM and TypeScript declaration form.

Names are upperCamelCase and derived from the brand name

The naming convention is the first thing that trips people up, and the project documentation is explicit about it. The names of the icons are upperCamelCase, and two examples are given.

Material Design is exposed as SiMaterialdesign, and azure devOps is exposed as SiAzuredevops. The pattern is a Si prefix followed by the brand name with the spaces removed and the first letter capitalised, and the important detail is that the capitalisation follows the brand name as the upstream project writes it, not the conventional spelling. Material Design becomes Materialdesign with a lower case d, and azure devOps becomes Azuredevops.

So a developer who writes SiMaterialDesign will not find it, and the fix is to search rather than to guess. The project documentation points to simpleicons.org as the place to find a specific icon, and the search URLs it uses reflect that naming, with a query for one brand and one for azure devOps.

This is a small thing, but it is the kind of detail that costs time once per project, and it is why the search-first advice is in the documentation rather than a list of names.

The basic component takes a color and a size

The component API is minimal, and the example is short enough to see the whole surface:

import { SiReact } from '@icons-pack/react-simple-icons';

function BasicExample() {
  return <SiReact color='#61DAFB' size={24} />;
}

A color and a size, nothing else required. The props are passed through to the SVG underneath, and the styles section shows the other route, where a className carries the sizing and the component takes no props at all:

import { SiReact } from '@icons-pack/react-simple-icons';

function CustomStyles() {
  return <SiReact className='myStyle' />;
}

.myStyle {
  width: 35px;
  height: 35px;
}

So there are two supported styles of use. Inline props for the common case where you want one icon with a brand colour, and a class name when the icon should follow the surrounding layout.

The default size of the icons in the Simple Icons set is their natural viewBox, and the size prop scales it, which is why the CSS example sets both width and height rather than one.

Every icon ships a default title, and you can override it

Accessibility is handled by a title element inside the SVG, and the documentation explains why that matters. The title element provides an accessible, short-text description of any SVG container element or graphics element.

The package provides a default title referring to the component name, so an icon is described as React out of the box. You can change it with a title prop:

import { SiReact } from '@icons-pack/react-simple-icons';

// title default "React"
function ChangeTitle() {
  return <SiReact title='My title' color='#61DAFB' size={24} />;
}

The comment in that example is the documentation being explicit about the default, and the value is the string React rather than the component name SiReact, so the title is the brand name and not the symbol name.

This matters more than it sounds for logos. A brand icon next to a link is a picture of a company, and screen reader users get the title text, so a default that says the brand is already better than an unlabelled SVG, and a custom title lets you say what the icon means in context rather than what it depicts.

Default colours, and the Hex companion constant

There are two ways to get the brand colour, and they are handled separately.

The first is the string default. Setting color to default uses the default colour for each icon, which is the colour the upstream Simple Icons set defines for that brand:

import { SiReact } from '@icons-pack/react-simple-icons';

function DefaultColorExample() {
  return <SiReact color='default' size={24} />;
}

The second is a companion constant. Appending Hex to the icon name gives you the default colour as a hex string, which you then pass to the color prop:

import { SiReact, SiReactHex } from '@icons-pack/react-simple-icons';

function DefaultColorExample() {
  return <SiReact color={SiReactHex} size={24} />;
}

So SiReactHex is a separate export holding the hex value, and it is used as a value rather than a string literal. The two approaches exist because the first is convenient and the second is composable: with the constant in hand you can build a colour scale, or a hover state, or apply the brand colour to a border rather than the icon itself.

The naming is regular, which is what makes it usable. Every icon has a Hex companion, so once you know the convention you do not have to look up whether a particular brand has one.

The build is a script, and the version comes from upstream

This package is generated, not hand written, and the scripts show the whole pipeline.

The generate:icons script cleans the icons directory and the index file and then runs scripts/generate-icons.mjs, which is where the per-icon components and the index are produced. The build script runs a clean and then a vite build, and there are separate clean targets for the icons and for the index file, plus a clean target that removes the generated root files including base.cjs, base.d.ts, base.mjs, index.cjs, index.d.ts, index.mjs and types.d.ts. The build output is in CommonJS, ESM and declaration form, with the entry points listed as main, module and types.

The version bump is the interesting script. The bump target installs the latest simple-icons from npm as a development dependency and then runs scripts/update-readme.mjs, which updates the README to reflect the new upstream version. That is the entire update path: pull the newest upstream Simple Icons, regenerate the icons, and update the documentation.

The repository also carries a .changeset directory with a changeset script, a version script and a release script, so releases are made through changesets, and there is a .commitlintrc, a .pre-commit-config.yaml and a prepare script that installs the pre-commit hooks. The package manager is pnpm, with a pnpm-workspace.yaml and a pnpm-lock.yaml.

MIT, recently released, and pinned to an upstream tag

The licence is MIT, and the manifest records it along with the author, Jorge Luis Calleja, and the repository directory as react-simple-icons inside the icons-pack organisation. The package keywords are worth a glance because they tell you where the maintainer positions it: react, simple-icons, brands, icons, svg, inline, design, component, and a couple of unusual ones that look like personal markers.

The release history is regular. The tags are v13.15.1 on 2026-08-16, v13.13.0 on 2026-03-17 and v13.12.0 on 2026-03-03, and the last push was on 2026-08-16, the same day as the newest tag. The major version at 13 tells you the API has been stable across many breaking-free releases, and the number itself is the package version rather than a count of upstream Simple Icons versions.

The gap between the March release and the August one is explained by the upstream dependency. A new release only happens when the upstream Simple Icons release changes, so the cadence of this package is the cadence of that project, and the version in the README tells you which upstream set you have.

The repository is not archived, the primary language is TypeScript, and the toolchain is a Vite build with a tsconfig and an eslint config at the root.

Editorial conclusion

Adopt react-simple-icons if you need brand logos in a React application and want them as components with accessible titles rather than as raw SVG files you copy in yourself. Do not adopt it if you need the very latest Simple Icons release, because the version is pinned to an upstream tag and the update path is a script run and a publish. Before you install, check three things: which upstream Simple Icons version the release you take is built on, since the package documents that it packages Simple Icons 16.28.0, whether the icon naming convention matches your codebase, because names are upperCamelCase and derived from the brand name rather than being brand names, and how you plan to track upstream, since the update script is what produces each new version.

Frequently asked questions

Official sources

1. icons-pack/react-simple-icons on GitHub
2. Issues
3. License: MIT
4. README
5. Releases