About IconDrop

A curated transparent-PNG icon library built for the product designers and engineers who actually ship interfaces.

Our mission

IconDrop exists because the open web of icon libraries is huge, fragmented, and surprisingly hostile to product teams. Designers spend more time hunting for the right icon than placing it; engineers spend more time fighting attribution requirements than shipping features. We wanted a single place where every asset is transparent by default, every license is permissive, every category maps to a real product scenario, and every search returns useful results in under a second.

How it started

The original IconDrop archive was a private folder of PNGs we used at a small product agency in 2022. We had been pulling icons from a mix of premium libraries and one-off Figma plugins, and every project ended with the same problem — a screen full of icons that almost-but-not-quite belonged together. After the third client noticed the inconsistency, we sat down for a weekend and re-cut the entire OpenMoji catalog into product-shaped buckets. The folder became a website became this archive.

Where the icons come from

Every icon on IconDrop is sourced from the OpenMoji open-source pictogram project, maintained by the University of Applied Sciences in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. OpenMoji ships over thirteen thousand assets under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. We import the full catalog, assign each icon to one or more IconDrop categories, write a short description tuned for product UI work, and re-tag the asset so it surfaces in searches that actual designers run.

What you can do with the icons

Use them anywhere. Drop them into commercial products, paid client work, side projects, internal tools, marketing pages, slide decks, fan zines, school assignments, conference talks — anywhere. The Creative Commons license requires attribution to the OpenMoji project and that any modified versions you redistribute carry the same license. See the license page for sample attribution lines you can copy-paste.

What is next

We are working on a downloadable SVG export, a Figma plugin that pulls the IconDrop archive directly into your file, and an open API so other indie tools can integrate the catalog. None of these are ready yet — but the moment they are, you will see them announced on the homepage. If you would like to be on the early-access list, drop us a note via the contact page.