About IconDrop Assets

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

Pen resting on a laptop keyboard next to a notebook, illustrative of the design work behind curating an icon library

Our mission

IconDrop Assets 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 Assets 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 Simple Icons catalog into product-shaped buckets. The folder became a website became this archive.

Where the icons come from

Every icon on IconDrop Assets is sourced from the Simple Icons project — an open-source, community-maintained library of brand SVGs. Simple Icons publishes thousands of brand marks under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0 1.0 Universal) dedication, and every PNG here is rendered on demand from that vector source, so downloads are never upscaled. We assign each icon to one or more IconDrop Assets 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 CC0 1.0 Universal dedication means no attribution is required and no license fees apply. The brand names and logos themselves remain trademarks of their respective owners, so avoid implying endorsement. See the license page for details and optional credit lines you can copy-paste.

What is next

We are working on a downloadable SVG export, a Figma plugin that pulls the IconDrop Assets 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.