I Tested Every Open-Source Brand SVG Library So You Don’t Have To (2026 Edition)

Every developer hits the same wall.

You need a Stripe logo for your integrations page. A GitHub icon for your login button. Maybe 30 brand logos for a “Powered by” section.

So you Google it. You find a blurry PNG from three years ago. You try the brand’s press kit. Login wall. You check Figma Community and find the old logo. An hour later you’re tracing vectors by hand.

I got tired of this. So I went through every major open-source brand SVG library and tested them in real projects. Five of them are actually worth using. Here’s what I found.

The Short Version

theSVG (4,000+ icons). Largest collection. Has dark, light, mono, and wordmark variants for each icon. Ships npm packages for React, Vue, and Svelte. Also has a CLI and an MCP server for AI coding assistants. Newest of the bunch.

Simple Icons (3,400+ icons). The one most developers already know. Monochrome only, but 24K GitHub stars and 200K weekly npm downloads speak for themselves. Rock solid.

Font Awesome (~500 brand icons in the free tier). The most widely used icon library on the web. Brand icons are a side feature, not the focus, but if you already use it for UI icons, it keeps your stack simple.

svgl (400+ icons). The prettiest website of the group. Built with SvelteKit. Great for browsing and quick copy-paste. Smaller collection.

Super Tiny Icons (475 icons). Every SVG is under 1KB. Average file size is 534 bytes. Nothing else comes close for performance-critical use cases like email templates.

Now for the details.

1. theSVG

Website: thesvg.org GitHub: github.com/GLINCKER/thesvg Icons: 4,000+ across 20+ categories License: MIT

theSVG launched recently with over 4,000 brand icons, making it the largest brand-focused SVG library out there.

The standout feature is variant support. Where other libraries give you one version of each logo, theSVG gives you up to five: full color, monochrome, light-background optimized, dark-background optimized, and wordmark.

This is the kind of thing you don’t think about until you’re building a dark-mode app and half your brand logos disappear against the background. With theSVG you swap default for dark and move on. No Figma detours.

Developer tooling

The npm package tree-shakes down to only the icons you actually import. One icon runs about 3KB.

npm install thesvg

import github from 'thesvg/github';

github.svg;       // raw SVG string
github.title;     // "GitHub"
github.hex;       // "181717"
github.variants;  // { default, mono, light, dark }

Official packages exist for React, Vue, and Svelte. All typed, all tree-shakeable, all zero runtime dependencies.

import { Github, Stripe, Figma } from '@thesvg/react';

There’s a CLI for searching and pulling icons from the terminal:

npx @thesvg/cli search "payment"
npx @thesvg/cli add stripe paypal square --format jsx

Every icon gets a permanent CDN URL that works in README files, docs, emails, Notion, dashboards:

https://thesvg.org/icons/github/default.svg
https://thesvg.org/icons/vercel/light.svg
https://thesvg.org/icons/spotify/wordmark.svg

The feature I haven’t seen anywhere else is the MCP server. Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI coding assistants can search and embed all 4,000+ icons natively. You tell your assistant “add a GitHub icon” and it grabs the actual SVG. No other brand icon library does this yet.

Where it shines: Projects that need brand logos in multiple color variants. React/Vue/Svelte teams. AI-assisted development.

Where it falls short: Newer project, smaller community than Simple Icons. Figma plugin is still in progress. Some niche brands haven’t been added yet.

Browse the full collection at thesvg.org

2. Simple Icons

Website: simpleicons.org GitHub: github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons Stars: 24,600+ | Icons: 3,400+ | npm: ~200K/week License: CC0 1.0

If you’ve worked with brand icons before, you’ve probably used Simple Icons. It’s been around for years, has a huge community, and just works.

Every icon is a single monochrome SVG path paired with the brand’s official hex color code. The visual consistency is excellent. Every icon follows the same guidelines for size, detail, and style.

import { siGithub } from 'simple-icons';
siGithub.svg;   // SVG string
siGithub.hex;   // "181717"

The ecosystem is well established. The community React wrapper gets 87K weekly downloads on its own. There are plugins for Figma, Raycast, and Alfred. Iconify includes Simple Icons as a first-party set, so they work anywhere Iconify does.

One thing to know: Simple Icons runs a “Great Icon Review” where icons below certain popularity thresholds get removed. It keeps quality high, but your favorite niche brand might not make the cut.

Where it shines: Monochrome brand icons with maximum community trust and ecosystem support.

Where it falls short: Mono only. No color variants, no dark/light versions, no wordmarks. If you need the actual full-color brand logo, this isn’t the library. No CLI or REST API either.

3. Font Awesome

Website: fontawesome.com GitHub: github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome Stars: 76,400+ | Free brand icons: ~500 | npm: ~1.8M/week

Font Awesome is the biggest icon library on the web. 76K GitHub stars. 1.8 million weekly npm downloads. It’s everywhere.

The free tier has about 500 brand icons alongside 1,500+ general UI icons. All brand icons are free across every tier, which is a nice touch. Version 7 dropped in 2025 with 300+ new icons and 30 styles.

Official components for React, Vue, and Angular.

Here’s the thing though. Font Awesome is a general-purpose icon library. Brand icons are a side feature. The ~500 free brand icons cover the big names well, but there are real gaps compared to libraries that focus on brands. The SVGs also tend to be heavier since the library grew out of a font-based system.

Font Awesome Pro ($99/year for individuals) opens up 63,000+ icons across 30 styles. Good value if you need UI icons and brand icons from one source.

Where it shines: Teams already on Font Awesome for UI icons. Projects that want one icon library for everything.

Where it falls short: Only ~500 free brand icons. No light/dark/wordmark variants. Heavier than SVG-only libraries. Pro costs money.

4. svgl

Website: svgl.app GitHub: github.com/pheralb/svgl Stars: 5,600+ | Icons: 400+

svgl doesn’t try to be the biggest. It tries to be the nicest to use. And it succeeds.

Built with SvelteKit and Tailwind CSS, the website is genuinely well designed. Browsing feels more like a design tool than a developer utility. Each icon shows light and dark variants with a clean toggle. Search is fast. Copy-to-clipboard is smooth.

There’s a public API at svgl.app/api/svgs and the community has built extensions for React, Vue, Svelte, Figma, Raycast, and VS Code. Pretty good for a project this size.

The trade-off is obvious: ~400 icons is a fraction of what Simple Icons or theSVG offer. If you need a niche brand, it probably isn’t here.

Where it shines: Quick visual browsing. Grabbing popular logos fast. Design-minded teams.

Where it falls short: ~400 icons. No npm package for programmatic use. No CLI. No tree-shaking.

5. Super Tiny Icons

Website: github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons GitHub: github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons Stars: 15,300+ | Icons: 475

Super Tiny Icons has one rule. Every SVG must be under 1 kilobyte.

Average file size: 534 bytes. Some icons come in at 180 bytes. Each one is hand-optimized with stripped metadata, simplified paths, and rounded coordinates.

No npm package. No CLI. No framework components. Just a folder of very small SVG files. Clone the repo, grab what you need, ship it.

For perspective, a typical brand SVG from other libraries weighs 3–10KB. Super Tiny Icons delivers the same recognizable logos at 10 to 20 times smaller. For email templates, IoT dashboards, or apps targeting slow connections, this is hard to beat.

The icons are simplified to hit the size target. Fine details are gone. But at 16–32px (which is where most brand icons render), the difference barely registers.

Where it shines: Email templates. IoT dashboards. Progressive web apps on slow networks. Anywhere file size matters more than pixel-perfect detail.

Where it falls short: 475 icons. Simplified artwork. No variants. No developer tooling. Not great for large-size display.

How to Pick

Need the most brand icons with dark/light variants? theSVG.

Need a battle-tested library with a huge community? Simple Icons.

Already using Font Awesome for UI icons? Stick with Font Awesome.

Just need to grab a few logos fast? svgl.

File size is everything? Super Tiny Icons.

Working with AI coding assistants? theSVG. It’s the only brand library with an MCP server.

What’s Next for Brand SVGs

The space has matured a lot. Five years ago, finding a clean brand SVG meant digging through press kits. Now there are multiple good libraries with npm packages, CDN support, and real communities behind them.

A few things stand out heading into 2026 and beyond.

Dark mode variants are becoming expected. Dark mode isn’t a nice-to-have anymore. If a library only ships one version of each logo, developers end up making the dark variant themselves. theSVG is the only one handling this at scale right now. Expect others to follow.

Tree-shaking is non-negotiable at scale. When a library has 3,000+ icons, you can’t bundle them all. Per-icon entry points that let bundlers drop unused imports are the standard now. Both theSVG and Simple Icons do this well.

AI assistants are changing the workflow. More developers are building with Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf. Having an AI assistant that can search and embed brand icons directly through MCP saves time on a task you’d otherwise do manually. This is still early, but the direction is clear.

Links

theSVG: thesvg.org / npm i thesvg

Simple Icons: simpleicons.org / npm i simple-icons

Font Awesome: fontawesome.com / npm i @fortawesome/fontawesome-free

svgl: svgl.app / Copy from website

Super Tiny Icons: github.com/edent/SuperTinyIcons / Clone repo

All five are open source and free. Use one, use all five. Whatever fits.

There’s no reason to hunt for brand SVGs manually anymore.

Brand icons and logos mentioned are the property of their respective trademark holders.

For a full interactive comparison of 7 libraries with a feature matrix, check thesvg.org/compare.