Icons

Icons tools are for sourcing icons for a product interface — the kind of work every indie hacker eventually hits and would rather not build from scratch. 7 tools are listed here, each picked and written up individually rather than pulled from an affiliate feed. Font Awesome is usually the first one people try: the icon font everyone's seen a thousand times — still the safest bet when you need one huge, reliable set with zero surprises. Heroicons takes a different angle — made by the Tailwind team, so they slot into a Tailwind UI with zero visual mismatch — a smaller set, but exactly right for most apps. And Iconify is worth a look too: skip picking one icon set entirely — Iconify gives one API and component that pulls from 200,000+ icons across every major library. Every listing below includes the actual tradeoff, not marketing copy, so you can pick based on what you're building instead of what ranks highest in a sponsored roundup elsewhere.