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August 25, 2020

Steve Schoger
A few months back we quietly released Heroicons , a set of free SVG icons we initially designed to support the components in Tailwind UI. Today weâre launching the official Heroicons web experience , which makes it easier than ever to search for icons and quickly copy them to your clipboard as Tailwind-ready HTML or JSX.
There are currently over 220 icons available in both medium and small sizes, with size designed to serve a different use-case:
All of the icons are Tailwind-ready, and are easy to style with Tailwindâs built-in size and color utilities.
<svg class="h-6 w-6 text-indigo-500" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor"> <path stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-width="2" d="M17 8l4 4m0 0l-4 4m4-4H3" /></svg>
For best results, use h-6 w-6 for medium icons, and h-5 w-5 for small icons.
Weâve got lots of ideas for both new icons, as well as new icon styles (duotone anyone?) that weâre excited to design and release in the coming months.
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Designing this site also got me itching to refresh the Hero Patterns site, so youâll probably see something like this show up at heropatterns.com pretty soon:

Weâve got a bunch of other âHeroâ domains waiting to be put to use too, and Iâm pumped to reveal what weâre working on for those soon.
If you have any ideas for new icons weâd love to hear them! Head over to the Heroicons GitHub repository and open an issue to make a suggestion.
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