Our team of 8 veteran designers creates icons and illustrations exclusively for Streamline. Since 2010, we design all our UI graphic assets from scratch. That makes us the world’s most experienced icon design studio.

We’ve created 150,000 icons and illustrations, and we’re adding hundreds more monthly. No other team created that much, with such a high and consistent quality.

You can request new icons or new illustrations. We’ll be happy to create icons that are useful to our users.

2– Use the best tools to speed up your workflow ⚡

We didn’t choose the easy way: Create the best icons AND develop from scratch the best software to use them.

Our four developers built the Streamline app and keep expanding it. With our web app, you can find, customize and add icons to your projects in seconds. Try our Figma plugin, and add icons to your project without even leaving Figma!

We are working on more features: Artificial Intelligence, multi-user accounts, revamped UI, public API, scene builder for illustrations…

3– Add the best icons to your projects ⭐

Most of our competitors focus on building a marketplace. They leave the content creation to random sellers or free users. So, you’ll find thousands of creators providing similar icons with inconsistent quality.

These marketplaces give you tons of content… that you cannot use! Have you found yourself browsing for hours to find the right icon? Trying to match disparate icons collected from random icons sets? Most competitors don’t control the quality. They overwhelm you with too many choices of inconsistent and competing assets.

From the start, we took the opposite direction. We produce all our assets in-house. We check the consistency of our icons. We spend tons of time controlling and improving the quality of our vectors.

You know you got the best UI assets for your projects.

4– Streamline your workflow 👍

1- Less noise: with Streamline, you get only the best assets, with very distinct styles. Our sets don’t compete with each other, they are complementary.

2- All the best UI assets are available in the same place. No time wasted, you know you got all the best assets in all popular styles, with professional quality.

3- The market's largest choice. Our signature is to produce MASSIVE sets. You don’t need to mix and match with other sets. Your work looks consistent, your team got a homogeneous database of images available.

4- Supafast workflow. With our Streamline app or Figma plugin, you find the right graphic and copy/paste it into your work in seconds.

5– Invest in a bootstrapped, sustainable company 📈

When you start using our icons, you are investing in assets that we will keep improving.

During the last 12 years, we saw many new competitors launching icons sets… then disappearing. Most of them were never expanded or maintained. UI sets that are not maintained lose their value and waste your money.

We started making icons in 2010, so you know we will still be here next year.

You are our investors. We give you the best return on your investment.

6– Made by makers, for makers ✊

When we look at our first icons created in 2010, we are not proud of them…

But like all our maker's friends, we become better every day. We take our time to make it perfect. As we don’t delegate the creation of the icons, we have total control over every asset created and improve daily.

We also make our legacy sets better. The icons we’ve created for Streamline since 2012 have already been improved 4 times! (from Streamline 1.0 to 4.0)

Our icons sets are ever-growing and always improving. When you subscribe to our icons plan, you know that the value of our assets will increase endlessly.

7– No marketing Bullshit, we hate it too ✌️

We are here to create the best icons, not sell our souls.

• We don’t force new users to signup to get our free assets.
• We don’t display third-party ads on our app. We keep our interface minimal to focus on the beauty of our icons, and ads are visual noise.
• No aggressive popup or other marketing tricks that interrupt your workflow.
• We give a 50% discount when users commit to a one-year subscription. It’s a reward to trust our project and invest in us.

8– Use diverse and inclusive graphic assets 🌈

Images should represent a more fair, diverse, and inclusive world. We work hard to represent all genders, ethnicities in the graphics that we create.

Over the past years, we have made sure any profession would show both women and men. We’ve added more LGBTQ themes and various ethnicities in our illustrations.

Suggest ideas and feedback on our requests boards, and help us to improve even more!

9– We keep innovating for twelve years 🚀

2010
First UI Design framework ever created, including UI components, icons, and swatches. Released as open-source.

2010
First massive vector icon set, with 1,500 icons: ‘Minicons’.

2012
First customizable vector stroke width: ‘Streamline’ 1.0.

2013
Our first app coded from scratch: ‘Fontastic’. An easy way to create icon fonts or SVG sprites.

2014
First global colors for icons: ‘Kameleon’. Users can change colors for all the illustrations in Illustrator.

2015
First set to reach the 5,000 icons milestone: ‘Streamline’ 2.0.

2017
The first illustration collection with three different styles: Line, Duotone, Multicolor. ‘Streamline UX’ also comes with adjustable strokes and global colors.

2018
First icon set with 30,000 icons and three different styles: Light, Regular, Bold. ‘Streamline 3.0’ is the most massive icon set ever made.

2019
The first version of our Streamline app. Browse, search and customize icons in seconds.

2020
The first version of our Figma plugin. Access all Streamline assets without ever leaving Figma.

2021
Added 12 new icon sets and 65,000 more icons with ‘Streamline 4.0’. Users can also access more than 20,000 illustrations and emojis.

2022
Figma plugin 2.0. Rewritten from scratch. Now released with drag & drop support, collapse/expand feature, UX improvements…

10– More amazing features coming soon ✌️

We have exciting projects in development, that we will release in the next months.

On the roadmap for 2022 ⤵

🤖 AI-powered search and better tagging for all assets

🖥 Desktop app, with Drag&Drop in your favorites apps

🤏 Change strokes width for icons and illustrations

↔️ Expand strokes to outlines

👥 Manage multiple accounts for teams

💠 Abstract vector elements and repetitive patterns.

✏️ Sketches vector annotations.

🔮 3D icons and illustrations.

📽 Animated icons.

🎛 Illustrations scene creator.

🚀 Ready to try it?

It’s free and no signup is required.
→ 100,000+ icons
→ 25,000 illustrations
→ 2,300 emojis

10 reasons to use Streamline to create better products was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

My name is Fyodor and I’m the tech lead in Streamline. I have good news and bad. Today I announce that we’re deprecating the Streamline NPM package and Sketch plugin. Instead, we’ll focus on the web app and Figma plugin, which are used by a noticeable share of our customers. I’ll explain why in this article; it’s a story about over-engineering and sunk cost fallacy.

We understand that you might feel frustrated about the removal of NPM package and Sketch plugin. We admit that it sucks. Migrating from one tool to another isn’t how we wanted your experience with Streamline to be. We care about you and want to make Streamline’s web app as easy to use for you as possible. Please take 2 minutes to share feedback so that we can provide a better experience for you.

In the past, we at Streamline were too naive and ambitious. We have tried to support as many platforms as possible: Sketch, Figma, NPM, VS Code, and others. What’s more, we planned to work on creating integrations for software like Powerpoint, Adobe XD, Word. At the same time, we maintained and released features for our flagship product — the web app.

Even though Streamline provides one of the largest and highest quality icons and illustrations packs in the world it’s being operated by a small team. That’s why we must ensure we don’t lose our focus. We need to stop supporting platforms that didn’t prove useful enough for our customers and which cause the largest amount of issues.

NPM package and Sketch deprecation plan

1. We’re sunsetting the Sketch plugin on 1st November 2021.
2. Old private NPM packages are going to be deleted on 1st November 2021. We have deprecated them since March and announced back then that we’re deleting them in summer 2021 so there was plenty of extra time.
3. The current open-source NPM package will receive minimal support until 1st November 2022, after that it will be deleted.

What should I do as a Streamline user?

Use our feature-rich web application.

If you use the Streamline Sketch plugin

1. Visit our web app and from now on copy the images from it.

If you use the Streamline NPM package

We know that this is inconvenient to do and it involves some manual work. We’re truly sorry that this is required and we wish there was a better way.

1. Uninstall the Streamline NPM package from your project(s)
2. Find each icon/illustration which was added to your project(s) from the Streamline NPM package. You can search for imports with `@streamlinehq/streamlinehq`.
3. Find each imported image in our web app. First, go to a family page of the image you’ve imported and then search for its name there. Eg for `@streamlinehq/streamlinehq/img/streamline-mini-bold/interface-essential/user/interface-user-circle.svg` go to https://app.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-mini-bold page and search for `Interface User Circle`.
4. Select SVG as the format, download it and import it as a plain image file in your project(s). If your build system supports it, I’d recommend importing it as a component so that you can easily change colors, size, etc.

How did we end up with this?

History of Streamline NPM package

Streamline NPM package has a long history of rewrites, poorly planned architecture, and faulty execution. The root cause of all issues is the package is both:

1. Not necessary
2. Too complex.

Streamline NPM package has been started a long time ago as the means to ease the life of our users who are developers. The initial architecture of the NPM packages system consisted of:

1. The so-called images packages: a private NPM package per a Streamline family.
2. The so-called wrappers: private NPM packages for React, Angular, and Vue frameworks which accepted images from the images packages and rendered them.

The packages were hosted on a paid 3rd party service so that only Streamline users with an active license did get access to them.

This architecture had the following major issues:

• Each time a Streamline images family was updated we had to update the corresponding NPM package. That meant that we had to either do it manually (which was practically impossible, considering the number of Streamline images and the frequency of their updates) either we had to create a sophisticated system of automatic updates for our packages.
• We had to support 3 different wrapper packages and different framework versions (Vue, I’m looking at you).
• We had to write and maintain custom logic in order to synchronize the licenses between Streamline and the NPM package hosting platform.
• Images in these packages were served not in the standard SVG but in a house-built custom format, which dramatically increased the difficulty of maintenance. That’s why wrappers were required.

All these difficulties have been a constant source of headaches. Developers and customer support at Streamline had to distract themselves from solving NPM packages issues instead of working on the web app.

The hilarious thing is that users could just download an image from the web app and import it as any other image in their code. Therefore, the NPM package didn’t really solve any issues for the majority of our users.

We thought: what can we do in order to get rid of these problems?

If we had the same question today, the answer should’ve been:

1. Accept that the NPM package doesn’t solve any major use case and is over-engineered
2. Count the customers who use the Streamline NPM package
3. If the number is not large (it’s not), slowly deprecate the packages
4. Focus more on the parts of Streamline which are used by the majority.

However, we’ve been too optimistic and overly confident. We decided to revamp the NPM packages.

The new architecture consisted of a single open-source NPM package which during installation fetched the required images and made them accessible as SVG files. Users could specify the needed images families via a custom configuration file or with standard environment variables. The images would be provided in plain SVG format so there would be no need for any wrappers.

This architecture seemed to be reasonable. It has reduced the complexity and decreased the amount of maintenance required. No longer there was the need to update NPM packages when our images got updated.

We felt very optimistic about the launch. However, after the release the following major issues swiftly became apparent:

• Since the new NPM package fetched images from Streamline, it relied on our backend stability. Whenever our server was down, users with the NPM package would not have been able to build their projects. That sucked.
• Making any changes to images’ slugs that are used in import paths or moving images between subcategories was no longer possible in Streamline since these changes would have caused NPM package users’ builds to break. As a consequence, our images structure became immutable, which sucks.
• Requesting all images for several families at once put noticeable pressure on our server. This, however, has been more or less solved with cache, but still would have posed a real threat to our performance in the future.

Imagine that your build would break because out of the blue something went wrong on Streamline server of and because of that you could not deploy your website anymore. If I were a customer I’d be pissed off.

None of the issues listed above were straightforward to fix. Solving them would have required major changes to our images structure and god knows which bugs could have waited for us ahead.

We’ve spent months trying to solve problems with the NPM package but we have never had any major breakthroughs. We have always felt that the final fix is right around the corner, but, alas, it never happened. We’ve fallen to a sunk cost fallacy.

Considering all these complications, we decided to get rid of the NPM package. The moving factor here, of course, was the fact that our customers could just copy images directly from the web app and the feature wasn’t crucial to their experience.

Key lesson: don’t work on “cool-to-have” features. Instead, focus on improving the core of your product.

History of Sketch plugin

We’ve added the Sketch plugin a long time ago because we believed that many of our users will benefit from it.

The issue with the Sketch plugin is that it relies on our backend in order to serve the Streamline images. Therefore, we had to keep supporting the old backend for the sake of this plugin, which increased the difficulty of maintenance.

What’s more, in the last years the UX tools trends have changed. Nowadays Sketch is swiftly losing in popularity.

We had a feeling that not many people use Sketch but we hesitated to count the numbers. When we finally did we realized that a mere 0.03% of requests we receive to our backend come from Sketch. That was the final nail in the coffin of our plugin. Even though we care about our Sketch plugin users it’s unfortunately not realistic for us to support every platform.

What is the good news?

Deprecating these platforms means that we can focus on the tools which our customers actually need — the web app and the Figma plugin.

This is great because you, a Streamline customer, will get more cool stuff faster.

Our web app is a solid alternative to the NPM package and Sketch plugin. Did you know that it got 500% more performant than a year ago?

Vincent Le Moign on Twitter: "OMG! 😮🎉We've just finished our transition to Next.js + @vercel This is so fast with the server rendering! ⚡️Hundreds of icons are displayed in less than 1 sec.👇 Check here, real video speed.👉 Check yourself: https://t.co/o4tA6t0qtG pic.twitter.com/1EieYwky3x / Twitter"

OMG! 😮🎉We've just finished our transition to Next.js + @vercel This is so fast with the server rendering! ⚡️Hundreds of icons are displayed in less than 1 sec.👇 Check here, real video speed.👉 Check yourself: https://t.co/o4tA6t0qtG pic.twitter.com/1EieYwky3x

What’s more, in the last months we’ve added several awesome features to it:

• Global colors change
• Multi-download
• More free sets

And we have more in plans, such as global search, favorites, collections and the new Figma plugin. Exciting times are ahead for Streamline! ✨

Thank you for reading. Hopefully, this honest article about over-engineering was both entertaining and helpful for you. As a reminder, please share your feedback with us.

If you have any feedback or questions about the decisions we have made please contact us directly via support@webalys.com or via Intercom in our website.

See you in Streamline!

How Streamline narrows down its focus was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Short answer: to offer you better icons and illustrations and tools to speedup your workflow. Plus, it will gives us a stable income to focus on building products. Starting in December, Streamline will be available only as a yearly subscription.

We sell more than icons, we sell productivity.

• When I started to sell icons in 2010, things were so simple. I just provided a big .zip full of vectors in various file formats (.svg, .ai, etc.)
• Since 2018, we started to provide more than icons or illustration. We develop tools to speedup your workflow. In the past two years, we’ve launched the Streamline web app, three plugins (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD) and the NPM packages for developers. More features are on the way: favorites, project folders, color edition for a whole set, desktop app for Mac and Windows…
• Developing software is expensive and time consuming. We have now three full-time developers working on Streamline. Managing the software projects takes a lot of my own time! 😓
  In the past year, I’ve spent half of my time managing the software project and making customer support for various bugs or helping people using the app, plugins and NPM packages.
• We need a stable income. For the past 10 years, the income depended mostly on launching new products or new versions (like Streamline 3.0). It is time consuming, stressing and after a big sales peak for the launch, the income goes down until the next big launch... Not great for the maker who need peace of mind to focus on building.
• The subscription model gives us a stable income to work continuously on improving our products and software. Subscriptions encourage us to develop the product you pay for, every day. That’s the opposite to the ‘one time-fee, use forever’ pricing model; where once you pay for a product, there is little incitation for the maker to make it better.
  Think about all these graphic assets that you bought: how many of them got updates? Of many of these products died?

It was a hard decision to take, but we will all profit from it. ✌️

I was considering a subscription model for almost 2 years. I spent tons of time thinking, making plans, designing around it… I threw away so many designs, copy, pricing tables. I thought about different pricing models, also some mixes of one-time fee and subscriptions (like Sketch is doing).

At the end, I’ve picked the simple way, offering only a yearly subscription.

Why was it so difficult?

Because I care for my customers. I want a fair offer for them. Like you, I don’t like to add up a new subscription to my expenses without good reasons.

If I launch this subscription, it’s because it will provide us the fuel for creating amazing new features and products. If you like Streamline now, you will love it even more in one year. We have big plans. 🤩

What benefits will you get from the subscriptions?

Thanks to the subscription model, we will launch a lot of new features and assets in the next months:

• Tons of new icons and illustrations, instantly added to your account. Over the past two years, we’ve actually built a ‘Vector cloud’ connected to all our tools. So, anytime we will add a new icon or illustration, it will be instantly available in our Streamline app, plugins and NPM packages.
  Note: you will get new assets only for the packs you’ve subscribed to.
• Frequent updates and improvements. We will review — again — all our icons and illustrations. Improving them and releasing instantly the updated version through our vector cloud.
• More plugins. We will launch more plugins in the next months, for Powerpoint, MS Word, etc.
• Extensions for code editors, our developers friends will love it! We plan to add extensions to VS Code and WebStorm. So, you’ll be able to add icons and illustrations right in your code editor, keeping the focus on your work.
• Desktop application. Streamline will always be accessible from your dock, and you’ll be able to drag & drop icons or illustrations in any app. Plus, all assets will be cached on your computer so it will be super fast, like what you get with Iconjar.
• More features to speedup your workflow : favorites, download multiple icons as a .zip, improved search, coloring multiple icons at the same time,, etc.
• Synchronization with your Adobe Creative Cloud account. We’ve partnered with Adobe to create a bridge between the Streamline app and your Adobe account. With just one click, you can add an icon to your Creative cloud projects.
• Tools for large teams and big companies: allowing a master account to attribute licenses to sub-accounts, share a list of icons or illustrations with your team, etc. We’ll launch around spring 2021 a documented API to connect our assets to your application or corporate DAM tools (Digital Asset Management).

When will you launch the subscriptions?

We plan the launch it before mid-December. Crossed fingers 🤞

After the transition to the subscription model, we will start to add a lot of new icons to the Streamline icons. We actually have thousands of new icons waiting for the subscription to be ready!

I already bought the Streamline icons, what will happen when the subscription starts

👌 No worries, you will keep your advantages forever:

• Use all the icons or illustrations you bought forever. We will keep the link to the downloadable sources active. Indeed, these sources won’t be updated with new icons or illustrations after the subscription launch.
• Keep a lifetime use of the Streamline web app. So, you can still search icons or illustrations, modify colors, download them as vectors, etc.

I’m an Iconjar user, will I still get the Iconjar files?

Unfortunately, no. But wait… Your workflow will be even better :-)

Even if we make frequent updates of your icons and illustration packs, you won’t have to download new Iconjar files every time we add an icon and update it in Iconjar.

New icons and illustrations will be automatically added to your Streamline app or plugins. No need to worry or waste time, you always have the last and best version of our assets.

Also, we will have soon a desktop version of our Streamline app, with drag & drop and all assets stored on your computer. It will be super fast and easy to use.

Will we still get the zip with all the source files (SVG, PNG, Figma, Sketch, etc.)?

Not anymore. We will rely only on the ‘Vector Cloud’ and our plugins, desktop or web app. Because it guarantees that you will always get the last and best version of an asset. Plus, it makes our workflow to produce assets a lot easier, allowing us to focus on creating assets and tools.

Any feedback or question?

Tweet me or email me

Vincent Le Moign
@webalys

Why is Streamline moving to a subscription model? was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

- 🔍 Instant search through our 30,000 icons
- ⬇️ Download icons as vector SVG/PDF or bitmap PNG
- 🎨 Change icon color and size before exporting
- 😉 Works for Windows users

[ Click here to try the Streamline App ]

What you can do now

Get instant search results

Find virtually any icon with a simple or multi-keywords.

Download free PNG

If you are on a budget you can download all our icons as PNGs for free (limited to 48px size). The quality is enough for use as the standard size on high-resolution screens interface.
We hope it will help more people discover the Streamline icons, as the free PNG users must link to the Streamline website in the websites or apps using the icons.

Download vector icons

• Download icons as SVG or PDF
• Copy icons in the clipboard as SVG and paste them in your favorite app (Figma, Illustrator, etc.)

Coming soon —Drag and Drop icons from our native app to your desktop (for Windows and Mac OS)
Coming soon — Icons available as NPM packages for Angular, React and Vue.js

Change icon color and size

Do you want to quickly change the color or size of an icon?
No need to launch Sketch or Illustrator anymore… Just make these changes inside our app and export the icon with your defined color and size.

Coming soon–Change the stroke width before exporting
Coming soon–Developers can use a “CurrentColor” setting

Ready to try it?

[ Click here to try the Streamline App ]

Download 30,000 icons for free (as PNG) or as SVG/PDF with the premium pack. Happy Streamlining!

What you will get soon

–Fall/Winter 2019–

• 🖥 Native apps for Windows and Mac OS, so you can drag & drop icons directly into your design apps (Illustrator, Sketch…) or on your desktop/file manager.
• ⚡️Plugins for Figma and Adobe XD, to search and use icons inside these apps through native components. Icons will be synced with our Icon Cloud, so you get access to the last icons added automatically.
• 📦 NPM Packages for React/Angular/Vue.js.
• 🔄 New Icon Cloud subscription plan. Get access to a hundred new icons each month, without any efforts.
• 🔎 Better search results. We will check and improve our icon tags, add a lot more tags for each icon, making the results more relevant.
• ✅ Activate more icon packs. Purchase our other bestseller packs in a few clicks: Nova icons (10,000 icons) and EGO icons (7,000 icons).
• ✅ Activate the Streamline Illustrations pack. Thousands of illustrations to design UX / Onboarding experiences and marketing websites. With 45 themes and more than 5,000 images, you get the world’s biggest illustration pack.
• ✅ Activate the Streamline Emoji pack. Get our brand new emoji collection that includes 1,680 emoji based on the last Unicode 13.0 version. The Streamline Emoji pack is not released yet (coming Summer 2019).

Coming later

–Spring 2020–

• 🖌 Advanced vector icon editing: change icons stroke width, change multiple colors for illustrations.
• ❤️ Add your favorite icons to a “favorite” category. Create categories for your different projects and add icons to it.
• ⚡️More design app plugins: Illustrator, Sketch, InVision.
• ⚡️ Office app plugins? We are thinking about creating some plugins for more office/corporate needs: Powerpoint, Google Suite, etc.

Enterprise features

– Spring 2020–

• 🏢 Large multi-seats plans for big companies. The company master account can admin all the employees, contractors or external agencies sub-accounts. Create access to the Streamline app for your employees with their individual email/passwords, change their account emails, delete accounts, transfer accounts, etc.
• 🔮 Documented API that will allow companies to connect our Icon Cloud to their Digital Asset Management systems or integrate directly within their applications.
• ❤️ Share icon selection, from your project categories, with your customers or team members.

Introducing the “Icon Cloud”

Do you know that 50% of our working time is NOT about designing?

We spend tons of time organizing, tagging, exporting icons in a multitude of different file formats (AI, Sketch, XD, SVG, PDF, PNG), zipping the various packs, uploading them… Our workflow is too too artisanal. 😓

Don’t even mention fixing an icon… Just thinking about the boring –and time consuming– steps to export a new version makes us procrastinate.

To speedup the icon creation we won’t provide icons as graphics files anymore. Yep, no more hundreds of files for Sketch, Illustrator, Figma...

Instead, our icons will be only available with our “Icon Cloud”, accessible through the Web app, future Desktop apps (Mac OS, Windows) and plugins for the most popular design software (Illustrator, Sketch, Figma, Adobe XD…)

Why the Icon Cloud is better for your workflow?

• You save time and always have the most current icons. Icons are instantly added to the Streamline app or the plugins you are using when we publish them.
• Icons will be added on a daily basis. We plan hundreds of new icons each month, as the icon cloud simplifies and accelerates our icon creation workflow.
• Perfect icons. Any problem reported will be fixed within a day and instantly updated.

Get hundreds of new icons monthly with our subscription plan

–Summer/Fall 2019–

What!? One more subscription? 😤

Nobody likes to get a new subscription, so why are we creating one for the Streamline icons?

Quick answer: to allow us to add icons quickly, instead of working for months on a huge upgrade with thousand more icons.

As we are no longer planning paid upgrades on an annual basis, the subscription model gives us a sustainable income to work continuously on improving and extending the Streamline icons.

No worries, you keep access to your icons forever 👌

You don’t want to subscribe to the subscription plan?
No problems, you can still use the Streamline app with the icon pack you have bought. Forever. But you won’t get the new icons added after your purchase date.

You can request new icons

You can already request icon creation through our new “Request Icon Board”. The most useful or highly voted icons are created within days and will be added to the Icon Cloud. Once created, they are automatically added to the icons available in your Streamline app account.

Thousands more icons, illustrations, and emoji will soon be available through the Streamline App

Our new Streamline App is the foundation of a new way to deliver our vector products. You will get access to ALL of our icon, emoji and illustration packs in the same application, and we will gradually add more amazing products.

We will unify all our vector products under the “Streamline” brand. Bye-bye Nova icons, hello Streamline Material icons! 👋

Streamline Icons 3.5

–Fall 2019–

Hundred more icons for our classic streamline icons, based on the requests made by our users. All these new icons will come in three weights: Light, Regular and Bold.

New Streamline icons family: “Multicolor”

–Fall 2019–

Based on the Streamline icons Light family, they can be used at a large size as illustrations. We did more than just coloring our line icons, we’ve added filled parts, reflections or shades to give subtle complexity to them. They are also easy to edit and tweak to your own colors.

New Streamline icons family: “Mini”

–Fall 2019–

Based on a 14px grid, the “Mini” Streamline icons are perfect to be used at small size, inside buttons or compact menus for example. We will design only the essential icons needed for apps and websites interface design, around 1,000 icons in three weights: Light, regular, Bold.

Streamline Illustrations 2.0

–Fall 2019–

One year after launching the Streamline illustrations, we are expanding our illustration library with more than 1,500 new scenes in the three usual styles: Multicolor, Duotone and Line.

Streamline Emoji

–Fall 2019–

A complete collection including all the Unicode 13.0 emoji, with our friendly, legible and clean “Streamline touch”. They will be the perfect companions to our icons and illustrations, and can also be used as illustrations in your app, website or marketing material.

Streamline Material [Ex Nova icons]

– Hundred more icons coming soon –

The world’s biggest Material Design icon set will get bigger soon! We have created hundred more icons for the next release.

Streamline Angular [Ex EGO icons]

3,600 Brand-New, Fresh-to-Death Vector Icons. Perfect for making your apps, web interfaces, and UI designs stand out in the crowd.

Meet the Streamline App team 👨‍💻✨👨‍💻

Clement Sauvage

The streamline App wouldn’t exist without my friend Clement, who coded it from scratch, writing more than 40,000 lines of code! 🤯
A French software engineer & entrepreneur who created four startups, including one sold to a major internet company, he’s also a startup mentor and speaker at international events.

Scott Lewis

I’m so happy to have Scott to join the Streamline project. Unicorn does exist! 🦄
Scott is an amazing icon designer, an experienced full-stack developer, a writer, and an entrepreneur.

The Geek corner. Which techs are we using? 🤓

⚛️ React

🔁 Redux

🎨 SASS

📦 Webpack

🛰 Express

🐘 PostGres

⚡️ ElasticSearch

Ready to try it?

[ Click here to try the Streamline App ]

Download 30,000 icons for free (as PNG) or as SVG/PDF with the premium pack. Happy icon-ing!

Search and download 30,000 icons with the new Streamline app was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

I’ve collected the best tutorials and advices to help you to become an icon designer… in just a few hours 😎

Intro to icons

by Matt D. Smith

Icon Design Guide

By Justas Galaburda

Better Icon Design in 6 Easy Steps

By Scott Lewis (iconify)

Icon Design: Create a Cohesive Icon Set

By Adam Whitcroft

Iconic: create icons with Figma

By Meg Robichaud

Iconic: create icons with Figma

by Ryan Putnam

The Icon Design Process

By Jon Hicks

Nucleo icons guidelines

By Sebastiano Guerriero

🌟 Best tools and workflow for icon design

Illustrator, Affinity Designer, or Sketch: Which is Best for Icon Design?

By Scott Lewis (iconify)

Supercharge Illustrator With VectorScribe and VectorFirstAid

by Scott Lewis (iconify)

Use Artboards & Export to Auto-tag Icons

by Scott Lewis (iconify)

Learn how to create icons, from the best designers was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

I first released the Streamline icon set back in 2013. Since then, it’s remained my best selling product. It’s also been the go-to icon library for many freelancers, agencies, startups, and even Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Adobe, Mercedes Benz, Citibank and Mastercard.

We’re constantly making updates, general improvements in style, and also adding more icons. I say “we” because I have a team helping now. Before going into the nitty-gritty, let’s stroll down a quick trip through memory lane.

• 2013: Streamline 1.0 — The very first version with 1,500 icons. This is the first pack to my knowledge that exceeded the 1,000 icon milestone and to get adjustable line weights. 😎
• 2015: Streamline 2.0—Next big release with over 4,000 icons.
• 2016: Streamline 2.5—A free upgrade bumped the total icon count over 5,000. This release also shipped with Iconjar files to make life a lot easier when you need to search for a specific icon to use.
• 2018: Streamline 3.0—A completely massive undertaking. Over 30,000 icons, this is the world’s largest icon library. It’s taken a full year, starting in April 2017, with 7 Designers and 2 assistants involved, to log more than 10,000 hours of work. 😱 These improvements were largely based on customer feedback after our survey last May.
• 2019: Streamline App Launch! 🚀 You can now find icons in seconds and download them as SVG, PDF or copy them in the clipboard.

Psst! Download the free 300 vector icons + 30,000 PNG icons here. Free for commercial use :-)

🔥 Over 30,000 icons. The world’s largest icon library

With over 10,500 unique icons, we’ve more than doubled the number from the last release. Each icon is available as a three uniquely-designed weights, for a grand total of 31,500 icons. They’ve been organized into 53 themes and 720 categories—an average of 13 categories per theme.

More icons for each theme

After lots of feedback, we’ve expanded the number of icons for the most commonly used themes, like business, shopping and e-commerce, coding, etc.

New categories

We’ve added brand spankin’ new themes inspired by the evolution of culture and tech. Things like artificial intelligence, drones, podcasts, mobile shopping, face ID. That brain is a pretty cool AI icon, right!? 😊

More diversity

The previous Streamline version lacked gender diversity. With Streamline 3.0, almost all user and profession icons received a female variation. We’ve also added a gender neutral version for the user category.

Alternate style for the User categories

We kept the “Classic” style, as requested by the beta testers, and added a new geometrical and stylized style.

More logos

We’ve updated logos like Snapchat, Medium and Scribd. We’ve added new ones like Stripe, Spotify, Fitbit, Nomad List, and many more.

Soooooo many icons

The numbers can get a little confusing, but overall we’ve grown the Streamline library from 5,000 to 10,500 unique icons. With three unique weights per icon, we’ve got over 30,000 in total to choose from.

Psst! Download the free 300 vector icons + 30,000 PNG icons here. Free for commercial use :-)

🔍 Find the right icon in seconds with the new Streamline App

You’ve asked, we’ve listened.

Not everyone has access to Iconjar and many people have asked for something similar. We’ve developed our own web app that lets you browse, search and download our 30,000 web icons right from your browser.

• Search through 30,000 icons.
• Download icons as SVG, PDF or copy/paste them in Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator/XD...
• Change color in a few click before downloading iocns.
• Works on any platform: Windows, Mac OS…

👍 Improved icons designs

Each and every single icon has been improved with more consistent look and better legibility. Take a look below to see what I mean…

3 icon weights

Each icon in Streamline 3.0 has three unique weights. The differences are much more than just bumping up the stroke for each version too.

🛴 Light — the classic Streamline style with bits of detail here and there designed with a 1px stroke.

🚗 Regular — a new minimal style designed with a 1.5px stroke.

🚜 Bold — a new solid style akin to the iOS 12 guidelines.

Notice the difference in details and overall feel of each weight? Good, because each one was designed from scratch. They have their own personality and are meant to be used separately.

New Regular weight, perfect at small sizes

The Regular weight is a bit thicker (1.5px stroke) and uses less details. It has better legibility compared to the Light weight, and can even be reduced from 24px to 16px while still staying sharp. They will look great on small menus, buttons, and generally minimal interfaces.

New Bold weight, following the iOS guidelines

Last year, Apple launched a bolder style for the iOS 11 interface, with thicker lines and more solid shapes. Our new Bold weight follows the iOS Human Interface Guidelines, perfect for designing iOS apps or for using highly legible iconography in general. Just look at those juicy nuggets of goodness down there.

Fun fact: Apple doesn’t recommend toggling between different icon styles anymore (eg. changing between a solid and outlined version.) Instead, they recommend the use of color to communicate state change. The more you know… 💫

Psst! Download the free 300 vector icons + 30,000 PNG icons here. Free for commercial use :-)

🏎 Faster workflow

Better organization, with over 50 themes

We’ve rethought the way the icons are organized, splitting big categories into smaller ones and making the overall structure easier to navigate.

With Streamline 3.0 you’ll now have 53 different theme files, using easily identifiable names like Users, Ecology, Business, Travel or Romance…

720 icon categories

Each Theme file is divided into multiple sub-categories, so it’s easier to browse and find the right icon.

New Interface Essential file

If you’re the type of person who buys icons online, it’s probably safe to say that you use your fair share of interface icons too. Since this is one of the more popular categories, we’ve grouped all the UI-related icons in one place.
A total of 940 icons for frequent use.

Over 30,000 icons, all available in Iconjar

If you work on a Mac, Iconjar is one of the best ways to manage large icon sets. We’ve neatly organized the Streamline icons into 53 groups and 720 sets, all tagged with up to 10 tags per icon.

Now every Streamline set comes with .iconjar files. No more panning around a giant artboard to find the right icon. ️🔍🤷‍

💎 Improved Sketch files for a better workflow

“Please allow me to search in the Sketch file by using the native search bar. This means you’ll have to add proper names to every layer or group. I beg you.”

— Feedback from a disgruntled Streamline 2.5 user 😓

After hearing many requests for a better workflow in Sketch, we’ve improved the Streamline 3.0 .sketch files dramatically.

Each icon will be provided as a symbol, named with easily searchable words like “Love-Romance / wedding / wedding-bride-cake.”

💎🔎 Find icons with native search…

🏃🔎 Find icons with Sketch Runner…

🔗 Use icon files as libraries, to quickly insert an icon in any document. Streamline 3.0 provide 53 files with themes like Business, Ecology, Romance or Users.

All these improvements are possible thanks to the fantastic Sketch plugin, Sketch Icons. Huge thanks to Valentin Chrétien and Antoine Moreaux 🙏🏻

Psst! Download the free 300 vector icons + 30,000 PNG icons here. Free for commercial use :-)

🔨 Improved SVG icons

Listening to your suggestions, we’ve also improved the SVG code:

• We’ve removed the transparent layer used in Streamline 2.5, relying only on the SVG viewBox attribute.
• We use the currentColor SVG value, instead of hard coding the color. Much more flexible for you to control the icons colors via CSS.

💸 New price and pack tiers

Streamline 3.0 is not a feature upgrade, but a brand new product. We’ve improved nearly ALL of the original icons, added 5,500 more, reorganized and improved the whole pack, plus added 2 new styles, etc.

It represents 1 year of work between 7 designers — over 10,000 hours of combined work. 🤜💥🤛

You can now choose between 2 different packs and 3 weights within each of the packs

Essential Pack

The Essential Pack provide around 3,000 icons with the most used icons in interface design. File types: .iconjar .sketch .ai .png .pdf and .png

• $67 for one of the three weights (Light, Regular, Bold)
• $134 for all three weights (3 weights for the price of two)

Ultimate Pack

The Ultimate Pack includes all 10,500 icons. File types: .iconjar .sketch .ai .png .pdf and .png

• $137 for one of the three weights (10,500 icons in Light, Regular, or Bold)
• $274 for all three weights — over 30,000 icons in total (3 weights for the price of two)

👉 Don’t forget to Download the free 300 vector icons + 30,000 PNG icons here. It’s free for commercial use :-)

What’s new in Streamline 3.0? was originally published in Streamline on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.