🆚 Material Icons vs. Simple Line Icons
- 📈 Simple Line Icons is slightly more popular than Material Icons.
- 🌍 Simple Line Icons is more popular in Germany, France, and Italy.
- 🌎 Material Icons is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Canada.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Material IconsType
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
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Simple Line Icons library is 1.1 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 Germany, France, and Italy, while Material Icons is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Canada.
United States
Germany
Japan
France
Italy
United Kingdom
Spain
Brazil
India
Australia
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Icons category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Icons category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Simple Line Icons is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, art, culture and heritage, and restaurants, while Material Icons is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Health
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Ionicons
Bootstrap Icons
Material Symbols
Material Design Icons
Google company profile🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.