lucide/BRAND_LOGOS_STATEMENT.md

Brand Logos Statement

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.

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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:

1. Break copyright or trademark law.
2. Make both you and the Lucide project legally responsible.
3. 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.