# tailwindlabs/heroicons

A set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development.

Repository: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/heroicons
Homepage: https://heroicons.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-05-12T13:51:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 82, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2382, "days_push": 113, "days_rel": 653, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 23765, forks 1314 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:35.344354+00:00)

## What it is
Heroicons is a set of 316+ free MIT-licensed hand-crafted SVG icons from the makers of Tailwind CSS, available as raw SVGs and as first-party React and Vue component libraries. Icons come in outline, solid, mini, and micro styles and are stylable via CSS color properties.

## Use cases
- find svg icons for a web ui
- add icons to a react app
- add icons to a vue app
- copy-paste icons into html
- icons that work with tailwind css
- free mit-licensed icon set for ui design

## When to choose
- you use Tailwind CSS or React/Vue and want consistent, high-quality icons
- you need icons in multiple sizes and styles (outline, solid, mini, micro)
- you want MIT-licensed icons with no attribution requirements

## When to avoid
- you need a framework-agnostic icon solution beyond React/Vue/SVG
- you need animated or multi-color icons
- you need a very large icon set covering niche domains

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: svg-icons, react, vue, tailwind-css, icon-set, design-assets, nodejs

## Member repositories
- tailwindlabs/heroicons (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.344354+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:21.153516+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tailwindlabs/heroicons (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:35.344354+00:00, sha facc3157f04b)
  - homepage: https://heroicons.com (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:21.709446+00:00, sha 9f22c2a05336)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/heroicons (fetched 2026-08-29T07:54:21.719070+00:00, sha 77c70a54aa8b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.