google/material-design-icons
Material Design icons by Google (Material Symbols)
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Where it stands
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The project lists 27 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides official Material Design icon sets including classic Material Icons and newer Material Symbols with variable font technology.
- Offers versatile icon styles and variable font axes for customizable appearance and animation, enhancing design flexibility.
- Use for integrating consistent, high-quality icons in Android and iOS mobile app interfaces following Material Design guidelines.
- Use for embedding scalable, customizable icons in web projects with support for CSS variable fonts and Google Fonts hosting.
- Use for designing UI components requiring icon weight, fill, grade, and optical size variations to match diverse visual themes.
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
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From the README
These are two different official icon sets from Google, using the same underlying designs. Material Symbols is the current set, introduced in April 2022, built on variable font technology. Material Icons is the classic set, but no longer updated. More details below.
The icons can be browsed in a more user-friendly way at https://fonts.google.com/icons. Use the popdown menu near top left to choose between the two sets; Material Symbols is the default.
The icons are designed under the material design guidelines.
We’d love to support your icon needs! Please submit your request here on GitHub as an issue.
Please note that Google Fonts does not accept user submissions of finished icon designs! There are fairly strict guidelines for Material icons, plus Google has upstream source files from which this repo is generated. Therefore, Google does not accept pull requests for icon files (whether new icon suggestions, or fixes for existing icons). Concepts are appreciated—just don’t design SVGs and submit them via pull request.
However, users are perfectly welcome to point at outside files or images as examples—for the kind of thing they want, but they won’t just be taken “as is.” This works especially well if you have multiple examples for a single icon, to help us understand the “essence” of the idea.
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Forks
9.7K+2
Open issues
430+13
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