🆚 Material Icons vs. Simple Line Icons

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Icon library
Icon library

About

Material Icons is an official icon library created by Google that provides standardized interface icons designed according to the Material Design guidelines.

The set includes thousands of icons across categories such as navigation, communication, media, and editing, and is available in SVG, PNG, and icon font formats, with variants such as filled, outlined, rounded, sharp, and two-tone styles.

Simple Line Icons is an open-source icon library with CSS, SASS, LESS and web font files.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Icons › Rank #7
Icons › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Simple Line Icons library is 2.8 times more popular than Material Icons.
Total websites

Market share

Icons

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Simple Line Icons is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Italy, while Material Icons is more popular in Japan, Guinea, and Angola.
United States
Germany
Italy
France
Spain
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Japan
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Simple Line Icons is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Material Icons is more commonly used on public information, fashion and beauty, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Entertainment
Sports
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#1,111
#1,154
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