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Credits and how it works

icon.place turns icons into editable constructions: shapes, holes and parts you can restyle and change in your browser. Nothing you draw, upload or trace leaves your device.

How the drawings work

One renderer controls line weight, shadow direction and palette roles across the library. Each drawing is made of shapes, joined with attachments, repeats and boolean cuts. That structure lets the same drawing become an engraving, a paper cutout or a pictogram.

Rendering runs on your device. Restyling a set needs no model call, API key or fee for each icon.

Edit and export an icon

  1. Open an icon’s page, such as Bicycle. When it has more than one drawing, choose one from the tabs above the editor.
  2. Under Appearance, choose Original, Line, Solid or Color, then a Palette. Print effects holds more styles, such as Crosshatch, Stipple and Woodcut, and the Paper background checkbox.
  3. Click a part to select it. Drag it to move it, drag a corner to resize it, or nudge it with the arrow keys; hold Shift to move it further. You can also type its X, Y and width, or choose Remove part. ⌘Z or Ctrl+Z undoes a change.
  4. Choose an Export size, then Download SVG or PNG.

The SVG is vector artwork on a 100 × 100 viewBox, with its width and height set to the export size, so it stays sharp at any size. The PNG is a square image at the export size, from 24 to 1,024 pixels. Both have a transparent background unless you turn on Paper background.

Save editable file downloads a .recipe.json file with the drawing’s parts, its style settings and checksums of the result. icon.place can’t open these files, so keep the SVG as well. Each recipe names the drawing and style engine versions that made it, currently iconplace-construct/0.1.0 and iconplace-construct-style/0.3.0, and reproduces the same SVG only with those versions. Studio scenes are different: Download scene saves a file that Open scene reopens.

A drawing adapted from an icon set shows its source and license under the editor. Those terms apply when you reuse it.

Drawings

Hand-built constructions are original to icon.place. Many concept pages also offer drawings adapted from these open icon sets, imported into editable parts and credited on each page:

Lucide is ISC-licensed (portions MIT, from Feather). Tabler Icons, Phosphor, Heroicons and Bootstrap Icons are MIT-licensed; Material Symbols and Remix Icon are Apache-2.0; Font Awesome Free icons are CC BY 4.0. Emoji drawings are adapted from Twemoji graphics by Twitter, Inc and other contributors, licensed CC BY 4.0. Their license terms apply to drawings adapted from them.

Temaki and Maki are CC0; Health Icons by Resolve to Save Lives and Hugeicons by Halal Labs are MIT-licensed; MingCute and IconPark by ByteDance are Apache-2.0. Their artwork is adapted into editable drawings.

Game-icons.net drawings are credited “Icons made by” the original artist on each drawing. They are licensed CC BY 3.0, except drawings by Viscious Speed and Zeromancer, which are CC0. The original background is removed and the artwork is restyled here. The upstream credits name all contributors.

Country flags also use Flag Icons 7.5.0 by Panayiotis Lipiridis, under the MIT license.

Visual collections

The illuminated, Gothic, printer’s ornament, natural-history, woodcut, paper-cutout, geometric, Art Deco, pictogram, Art Nouveau, and Op art collections are original studies by icon.place. Icons and illustrations use separately considered geometry. They are interpretations of visual traditions, not reproductions of historical artworks.

The index is growing, with an initial emphasis on European manuscript and print traditions and modern graphic design. It is not a comprehensive survey of global visual culture. Each tradition includes context and reference links.

Saved something in the earlier collection tool? Your browser copy is still available in the previous composition desk. You can export it there and open it in Studio.

Illuminated initials use Cormorant Garamond by Christian Thalmann. Gothic initials use UnifrakturMaguntia by the Unifraktur project. Both are licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The editable outlines are derived from the fonts; their license notices and pinned sources are retained in the project.

Concepts

The 16,394 concept pages come from the names and keywords of 18 icon and emoji vocabularies, merged and linked to Wikidata where confident. No artwork from those vocabularies is used unless listed above.

Local prompting

Studio can interpret a description with Gemini Nano in Chrome or Qwen3-1.7B running on your device. A model loads only when you choose to start it; Qwen’s first use downloads about 1 GB. It arranges the available library pieces; requests for new subjects need new artwork.

The local model integration adapts the MIT-licensed runtime patterns from Alt, with WebLLM for Qwen. Browser and hardware support varies; Quick starts and manual editing work without a model.

Privacy

icon.place has no accounts and sets no cookies. Uploaded SVGs, images and descriptions are processed on your device. Model files download from their providers; your descriptions are not sent to an inference service.

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