# RemixIcon: a 3200-icon system for UI work, and how to wire it into a project > RemixIcon is an open source neutral style icon set shipped as SVG, a webfont and framework packages. Its value is consistency across a large grid, not novelty, and the main decision is which delivery format fits your build. **Remix-Design/RemixIcon** — Open source neutral style icon system - Repository: https://github.com/Remix-Design/RemixIcon - Website: https://remixicon.com - Stars: 8,394 · Forks: 560 - Language: Less - License: NOASSERTION - Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-22 · Language: en - Canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/remix-design-remixicon ## What RemixIcon actually solves, and for whom Interface work runs into a boring problem: you need hundreds of small symbols that look like they came from the same hand. Mixing sets produces mismatched stroke widths and optical sizes, and hand-drawing each glyph does not scale. RemixIcon targets that gap with a stated set of 3200+ icons, each drawn on a 24x24 grid in two styles, Outlined and Filled. The README describes them as "born with the genes of readability, consistency, and perfect pixels", which is marketing phrasing, but the underlying claim is checkable: a shared grid and a shared style pair. The audience is split in two. Designers get a website with search, a Copy SVG button that pastes into Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, plus direct SVG and PNG downloads. Developers get a webfont with CSS classes, an SVG sprite, and first-party packages for React and Vue 3. That dual delivery is the reason the project is not just a folder of files. What it is not: a logo collection. The README says RemixIcon is "mainly focused on user interface icons" and recommends Simple Icons when a requested logo is missing. Treat that as a boundary, not a temporary gap. ## The 24x24 grid and the -line / -fill naming rule Every icon exists in two variants, and the naming encodes which one you get. The class name rule is ri-{name}-{style}, where -line is the outlined style and -fill is the filled style. So ri-admin-line and ri-admin-fill are the same subject drawn two ways. This is the single most important convention to internalise, because a wrong suffix does not throw an error. It renders nothing. Style consistency here is enforced by process rather than tooling. The contributing section states that third-party drawn icons are not accepted, and that a contributor should open an issue with a screenshot or a URL to an svg-format file instead. That is a deliberate trade: you get a uniform set, and you give up the ability to drop in a custom glyph and have it match. If your product needs one bespoke symbol, it will sit next to 3200 icons that were drawn under a rule your symbol was not. The repository layout reflects the same split. Top-level entries include fonts/, icons/ and tags.json. The tags.json file holds the website search keywords, and the README notes the project does not currently document that file further. So search relevance on remixicon.com is maintained separately from the icon artwork itself. ## Installing RemixIcon from npm and using the webfont The webfont path is the shortest route to a working page. The README's install step is a single npm command, then a CSS import in your main entry file. ```bash npm install remixicon --save ``` ```js import 'remixicon/fonts/remixicon.css' ``` After that, icons are ordinary elements with a class. The rule is ri-{name}-{style}, so these two render the outlined and filled admin icon respectively. ```html ``` One migration detail matters if you are reading older tutorials: the README states the class prefix changed from remixicon- to ri in v2.0.0. Code copied from a pre-v2 article will silently produce no glyphs. Sizing comes from remixicon.css. Icons inherit the parent font-size, and the stylesheet adds relative classes from ri-xxs (0.5em) through ri-10x (10em), plus ri-fw for fixed width. A container sets the base size and the class scales from it. ```html
``` The README points at the fonts/remixicon.css file in the repository for the full list of size classes rather than enumerating them all. ## CDN, SVG sprite and the React or Vue packages If you would rather not add a build dependency, the CDN route is a stylesheet link in the document head. The README uses jsDelivr and notes that the version segment can be swapped for any published history version. ```html ``` The SVG sprite is the third delivery format. You download remixicon.symbol.svg into the project and reference symbols by id through a use element, then set width, height and fill in CSS. ```html ``` For component frameworks the README documents separate packages. React installs as @remixicon/react and exports named components such as RiHeartFill, which take size, color and className props. Vue 3 installs as @remixicon/vue and exposes the same component names, used with size as a string such as 36px. There is also an official Figma plugin listed under the Figma heading. Pick one format per app. Loading the webfont and the sprite and the React package in the same project means shipping the same artwork more than once. ## Where RemixIcon is the wrong choice The clearest limitation is scope. Brand and logo marks are out of scope by the maintainers' own statement, and the README redirects that need to Simple Icons. A dashboard that needs GitHub, Slack and Stripe marks alongside UI icons will end up running two sets regardless. Bundle behaviour is the second constraint, and it depends on which format you chose. The webfont is a single CSS file plus font files, which means every visitor downloads the full set whether the page uses three icons or three hundred. The React and Vue packages are per-component imports, so the bundler can drop unused icons, but that only holds if you import named icons rather than reaching for a barrel import. The README does not publish per-icon file sizes, so anyone with a hard size budget should measure their own output rather than assume. The contribution model is a third boundary. Because third-party drawn icons are not accepted, a missing glyph is a request, not a patch you can merge. The README's process is an issue titled "Icon request: " following the issue template, or email to the maintainer address if you are not comfortable with GitHub. That is a queue you do not control. Finally, the licence is not a standard OSI identifier. The package.json declares "Remix Icon License v1.0", and the repository carries a License file at the top level. The README states icons are free for personal and commercial use. Read that file yourself before shipping in a regulated context; it is not MIT or Apache-2.0, and the difference can matter to a legal review. ## How RemixIcon compares with Font Awesome and Lucide Font Awesome and RemixIcon share the webfont model: a stylesheet plus class names, with a paid tier on Font Awesome's side. The practical difference is scope philosophy. Font Awesome carries brand marks and a much larger catalogue, so it can cover logos and UI in one dependency, while RemixIcon deliberately stays on interface symbols and sends logo requests elsewhere. If a single dependency covering both matters more than stylistic uniformity, Font Awesome is the more direct fit. Lucide takes the opposite approach to delivery. It is SVG-first and component-oriented, so you import the icons you use rather than loading a stylesheet and a font. RemixIcon does offer a sprite and framework packages, which narrows the gap, but its default documented path is the webfont. The trade is familiar: a webfont is trivial to adopt and cache-friendly, while per-icon imports give a bundler more to remove. Two style differences are worth noting before you migrate. RemixIcon pairs every icon as -line and -fill, so switching between outlined and solid is a suffix change rather than a different import. And it is built on a 24x24 grid, which the README presents as the basis for its consistency claim. Neither library is a drop-in replacement for the other's class names, so a migration is a find-and-replace plus a visual pass, not a config change. ## Maintenance, releases and what adopting this costs you The repository is not archived, and the last push was on 2026-04-28. Recent tagged releases are v4.8.0 on 2025-12-29, v4.9.0 on 2026-01-27 and v4.9.1 on 2026-01-29. The cadence looks like occasional feature releases followed by a patch, which is normal for an icon set: the artwork changes slowly, and the package version exists mainly so consumers can pin a CDN URL or lock a dependency. Upgrade cost is low but not zero. The README's own note about the v2.0.0 prefix change from remixicon- to ri is the precedent: a naming decision shipped once and broke every older snippet on the web. A future major version could do the same. Pinning a version in the CDN link, as the README's example does with @4.9.0, is the cheap insurance. Licence implications deserve their own line. The declared licence is "Remix Icon License v1.0", not a recognised SPDX identifier, and the README states the icons are free for personal and commercial use. That statement is the project's own, not a legal opinion, and the top-level License file is the authoritative text. If your organisation requires an allowlisted licence, expect the review to take longer than an MIT dependency would. One governance note: package.json lists two contributors. A project with a small maintainer group and a closed contribution policy for artwork is not fragile, but it does mean the release schedule is theirs to set. ## Conclusion Adopt RemixIcon if you need a wide, visually consistent UI icon set and can accept a webfont or per-icon SVG import; skip it if you need brand logos or a single-icon bundle size budget, since the README points logo seekers to Simple Icons. Before committing, open remixicon.com and confirm the exact icon names you plan to ship, because a wrong -line or -fill suffix silently renders an empty glyph rather than an error. ## FAQ ### Is RemixIcon free? The README states that all icons are free for both personal and commercial use. The package.json declares the licence as "Remix Icon License v1.0", which is not a standard SPDX identifier, so read the License file in the repository if your project has licence allowlisting. ### How do I install Remix Icon? The README gives npm install remixicon --save followed by importing remixicon/fonts/remixicon.css in your main entry file. You can also skip installation and link the jsDelivr stylesheet in your document head instead. ### How do I use RemixIcon in React? Install @remixicon/react and import named components such as RiHeartFill, which accept size, color and className props. The README shows size set as a number and color set as a fill color string. ### How do I use Remix Icon in HTML? Add an element with the class ri-{name}-{style}, for example ri-admin-line for the outlined style or ri-admin-fill for the filled style. The README notes the prefix changed from remixicon- to ri in v2.0.0, so older snippets will not render. ### What is Remix Icon? It is an open source neutral style icon system of 3200+ symbols drawn on a 24x24 grid in Outlined and Filled styles, aimed at designers and developers. It ships as SVG downloads, a webfont with CSS classes, an SVG sprite and React and Vue 3 packages. ## Sources - [Issues](https://github.com/Remix-Design/RemixIcon/issues) - [Project website](https://remixicon.com) - [README](https://github.com/Remix-Design/RemixIcon/blob/master/README.md) - [Releases](https://github.com/Remix-Design/RemixIcon/releases) - [Remix-Design/RemixIcon on GitHub](https://github.com/Remix-Design/RemixIcon) --- Hysen Labs editorial analysis, written from the project's own repository and release notes. Cite the canonical page: https://hysenlabs.com/projects/remix-design-remixicon