iconfont

Iconfont is a vector icon management platform under Alibaba, the full name is Iconfont-Alibaba Vector Icon Library, it is one of the most widely used and richest icon resources online icon library in China, especially loved by front-end developers, UI designers and product managers.

Main Features

1. Massive icon resources
   • Currently has more than 100,000+ vector icons (updated continuously until 2025)
   • Include a variety of styles: Line, Filled, Colorful, Hand-drawn, Cartoon, Business and so on.
   • Cover common scenarios: e-commerce, social, tools, arrows, status, operation feedback and almost all business scenarios.
2. Online icon management and project-based use
   • You can create multiple “projects” and add the required icons to the project for unified management.
   • Support batch download, online use (referenced by links), generate font files.
   • Support labeling, categorizing, searching and bookmarking icons.
3. Three main ways to use
   Usage	Description	Scenario
   Symbol references	Introduced by <svg><use xlink:href=”#icon-xxx”></use></svg>.	Recommended! Multi-color support, modifiable colors and sizes, smallest file size.
   Unicode references	Use fonts, copy Unicode code and insert it into HTML.	Best compatibility, but does not support multicolor icons.
   Font-class references	Define a class name for each icon (e.g. .iconfont-icon-home).	Easy to use, but long class names
4. Powerful customization
   • Support uploading your own SVG icons (individuals/enterprises can create their own icon libraries).
   • Modify icon color, size, stroke width online.
   • Support generating @2x, @3x font files for high resolution screens.
   • Support subsetting fonts (only pack the icons used in the project, greatly reducing the file size).
5. Multi-color icons (color icons) support
   • The first platform in China to support multi-color icons on a large scale.
   • Perfectly display multi-color effect by Symbol way, and can modify the color dynamically.
6. Team Collaboration and Enterprise Functions
   • Support team account, multiple people can maintain the icon library together.
   • Enterprise users can create private icon libraries that are not publicly available.
   • Support icon version management, permission control

Core Features and Advantages

Examples of common usage scenarios (Symbol approach, recommended)

<! -- 1. First introduce the online file (only need to introduce it once) -->
<script src="https://at.alicdn.com/t/font_xxxxxx.js"></script>

<! -- 2. Use icons -->
<svg class="icon" aria-hidden="true">
  <use xlink:href="#icon-home"></use>
</svg>

Comparison with other icon libraries

Summarize

Iconfont is almost the “standard” icon solution for front-end development in China, especially when using mainstream frameworks such as React, Vue, Ant Design, Element Plus, etc. 99% of the projects will access Iconfont, which combines a large number of icons, easy to use, fast loading, support for multi-color, customizable, etc. It is one of the most cost-effective vector icon platforms at present. It is one of the most cost-effective vector icon platforms.

The official website address: https://www.iconfont.cn strongly recommended that each front-end developer register an account, build a few common projects (such as “general icon” “business icon”), the future development of the project directly from their own icon picking, very efficient!