Iconography

Learn about the Skeleton iconography system.

Skeleton takes an agnostic approach to icons, allowing you to use any combination of SVGs, emoji, unicode, or dedicated icon libraries. Mix and match to fulfill your project's unique requirements.

Lucide

While Skeleton is icon-agnostic, we recommend Lucide for its broad framework support and clean aesthetic. All examples found on this site use Lucide, but feel free to substitute with any alternative.

Sizes

You can size icons and related elements using the following utility classes:

  • size-elem-*
  • h-elem-*
  • w-elem-*

TIP: Tailwind Components (buttons, badges, chips, field sizes, etc) adjust icon size automatically for any SVG-based icons (such as Lucide). Explicitly setting the size is redudant.

xs
sm
base
lg
xl
2xl
3xl
4xl
5xl
6xl
7xl
8xl
9xl

Icon sizes are based on Tailwind’s built in --text-* property, which means you can match icon sizes as follows.

html
<div class="flex items-center gap-4">
	<SomeIcon class="size-elem-{size}" />
	<div class="h-elem-{size}">...</div>
</div>

As well as extend with custom icon sizes as expected.

css
:root {
	--text-10xl: --spacing(42); /* 168px */
}
css
@utility icon-10xl {
	width: var(--text-10xl);
	height: var(--text-10xl);
}

Alternatives

Looking for something a bit different? Check out these other popular alternatives.

  • Iconify : provides a vast array of icon sets supported by popular icon libraries.
  • Font Awesome : provides a huge variety of icons in their free tier.
  • SimpleIcons : provides an excellent selection of brand icons.
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