The Verified Catalog Breakdown Across 76,166 Icons

Inspecting the live SVG Nexus license directory shows how the 76,166 indexed icons break down by recorded SPDX license:

  • MIT (38,361 icons — ~50.4%): Includes Phosphor (9,072), Tabler (6,220), Authentic Brand Logos (5,000), Domain Icons (5,000), Fluent UI Emoji (3,145), Bootstrap Icons (2,078), Devicon (1,863), 3D Vector Icons (1,692), Heroicons (1,288), LobeHub Icons (962), Mouse (542), SVG Icons Collection (533), World Regional Flags (270), Open Iconic (223), Fluent UI Color (199), Ant Design TwoTone (150), and Bytesize (101).
  • Apache-2.0 (20,303 icons — ~26.7%): Includes Material Icons (10,751), Dashboard Icons (3,523), IconPark (2,658), MingCute (1,663), and MingCute Fill (1,663).
  • ISC (1,866 icons — ~2.4%): Lucide (1,866 icons)—functionally permissive like MIT when preserving the copyright notice.
  • CC0-1.0 Public Domain (393 icons): Includes Maki (215), Osmic (169), and Simple Icons (143—subject as always to brand owner trademark rules).
  • CC BY 4.0 (10,697 icons) & CC BY-SA 4.0 (4,510 icons): Includes selfh.st Icons (6,993 CC BY 4.0), Twemoji (3,689 CC BY 4.0), and OpenMoji (4,495 CC BY-SA 4.0). Commercial use is permitted, provided you supply visible attribution (and ShareAlike terms on adapted CC BY-SA packs).
  • Small edge-case subsets (31 icons total): A handful of catalog entries inside aggregated sets carry CC-BY-SA-3.0 (7), MPL-2.0 (7), BSD-3-Clause (4), GPL-3.0-only (4), GPL-3.0-or-later (4), GPL-2.0-or-later (3), CC-BY-ND-4.0 (2), and single-icon legacy licenses.

How to Filter Exclusively for Permissive Commercial Packs

Over 60,900 icons (nearly 80% of the catalog) sit under MIT, Apache-2.0, ISC, or CC0-1.0. When building commercial client software where visible footer attribution isn't practical, use the License dropdown in the SVG Nexus search bar to filter specifically by MIT, Apache-2.0, ISC, or CC0-1.0, and keep the upstream LICENSE.txt notice in your repository's documentation.