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Top 10 Figma plugins for icons
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Top 10 Figma plugins for icons

Pierluigi Giglio
October 7, 2023

Wondering where to find the best icons for your Figma designs? Don’t worry, we got you. We know how important it is to personalize your project with icons – not only for the aesthetics but also to help the user navigate easily. Icons simplify a design, making it more accessible and user-friendly. 

It can be a bother to individually download all your icons, and that’s where icon plugins come in. It’s very helpful to have your icons ready on the go whenever you need them. So tune in to find out more about the top 10 most popular & effective Figma plugins for icons, so you can make your design process easier!

1. Flaticon by Freepik

Flaticon

Armed with millions of icons ready to use, Flaticon might just be your best choice if you don’t have a specific idea in mind about your project. This plugin has many useful tools – such as searching by tags, seeing icon packs, importing icons as components, etc. You just need to drag & drop the icons into your project and voila – a brand new look!

2. Font Awesome Icons

Font Awesome

If simple black-and-white icons are where you’re at, Font Awesome Icons should do the job. It has a gallery with plenty of simple icons ready to use – icons that are more suitable for daily or common use. These include social media icons, symbols, commercial use icons, simple logos, etc. Give it a go!

3. Iconsax Icon Set by Iconduck

Iconsax

Iconsax icons are designed for mobile, desktop, web, and print. All 6002 icons are free and ready for daily use. This plugin comes with a few other useful features – such as being able to see through search and embed history and will soon even allow you to save your favorite icons.

4. Open Iconic Icon Set by Iconduck

Open Iconic

This is another set of icons by Iconduck. These graphic icons are perfect for interface design, mobile design, rich text editor, etc. They provide a rather simple way to elevate your projects in Figma, to keep your designs minimalistic but also interactive at the same time.

5. Iconbuddy

Iconbuddy

This plugin offers you an impressive gallery of over 180k icons of all types, all in SVG form. It has both black-and-white as well as colorful icons. This plugin also allows you to customize every element of the icon to your liking, and search through all of them.

6. Bubblecons Icons by Iconduck

 Bubblecons

Bubblecons might just have the cutest icons for you to use. This set of 600 icons is not only colorful and well-decorated, but it also includes plenty of high-quality details. If your Figma design is bright and lovely (just like these icons), consider Bubblecons!

7. Mono Social Icons by Iconduck

Mono Social

Just like the name suggests, the Mono Social plugin is centered around social media, website, shopping & chat icons. It’s a perfect plugin if your design is commercial, and it can save you a handful of time when working.

8. Magicons Flat Icons by Iconduck

Magicons

This icon gallery is exclusively made up of color icons. They're bright and consistently designed, which can be super useful for user interface library design systems. This plugin also offers you a couple of useful features such as downloading the icons in specific PNG sizes, downloading as SVG files, etc.

9. Lineicons

Lineicons

With over 8400 icons that are free and ready for your use, the Lineicons plugin can become your best friend in the design process. It includes plenty of fine-line icons, as well as ones that are filled in. It’s a great plugin to use for minimalistic designs that are pleasing to the eye, and you can customize them too!

10. CoreUI Icons by Iconduck

CoreUI

Last but not least – CoreUI icons give you access to over 1,000 primarily useful icons for mobile and desktop interface design. The icon library focuses on interface use cases but can be used for post and branding design as well. And they’re all free, as well as licensed for personal or commercial use.

If you are unclear about how to install these icon plugins, please refer to our previous article for an easy guide on how to do it!

We hope this guide helped you pick the perfect icon plugin for your Figma design! If you want to learn more about Figma, feel free to check out our other free resources & guides!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pierluigi Giglio

Sr. UI/UX Designer and Consultant with over 10+ years of experience working with Fortune 500, large enterprises and funded startups. Having worked on hundreds upon hundreds of design projects, collaborated with 40+ clients from all around the world and taught design to thousands of students I am very grateful that I have the opportunity to give back to the design community and help other become better designers.

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