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Our Official Stance on Including Brand Logos in Lucide
TL;DR
Lucide does not accept brand logos, and we do not plan to add them in the future.
This is due to a combination of legal restrictions, design consistency concerns, and practical maintenance reasons.
If you need brand logos, we recommend Simple Icons, which provides an extensive, legally safer collection of brand marks.
1. Historical Context
This is not a new debate — other icon sets have gone through the same discussion:
- Material Design Icons deprecated all brand icons because they didn't fit the style, didn't work well in one color, and often looked out of place in a 24×24px grid.
- Feather Icons came to the same conclusion: brand logos have their own style, and forcing them into another inevitably leads to aesthetic compromises.
- Lucide learned from these examples — we'd rather focus on making a consistent set of non-brand icons that all work together.
2. Legal Considerations
Most brand logos:
- Are protected by trademark or copyright.
- Have strict rules for how they can be used (colors, spacing, proportions, etc.).
- Don't allow modification — but we'd have to change them to fit Lucide's style.
This means adding them could:
- Break copyright or trademark law.
- Make both you and the Lucide project legally responsible.
- Force us to review every new request one by one for legal issues — something we simply can't do.
Note: Simple Icons avoids this by keeping logos exactly as the brand provides them — though even they sometimes face legal challenges.
3. Design & Consistency
Lucide is all about visual consistency.
Adding brand logos would:
- Break our own design rules for shapes, proportions, and stroke.
- Mix two fundamentally different categories of graphics (pictograms vs. corporate logos).
- Create a library where a subset of icons will always look "out of place".
If the logos are not in Lucide's style, why include them in Lucide at all? Better to use them from a dedicated brand icon source.
4. Maintenance Burden
Even with our current "no brand icon requests" policy, people still request them regularly.
Having any brand icons in the set:
- Makes people think we might add more in the future.
- Leads to repeated requests and the same conversations over and over.
- Wastes maintainer time redirecting people to the same explanation.
Removing them entirely solves this problem.
5. Recommended Alternatives
If you need brand icons, try:
- Simple Icons: offers a huge range of brands, in consistent SVG format, using a 24×24 viewBox, the same as ours.
- Official brand asset pages: most major companies provide downloadable SVGs.
You can use these alongside Lucide without bloating our core library.
Final Words
Lucide is an icon set, not a logo set.
Logos belong in dedicated logo resources.
We're focusing on what Lucide does best: providing a clean, cohesive, and legally safe collection of open-source icons.