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@mui/icons-material
This package contains Google's Material Icons converted to Material UI SVG Icon components.
Google also offers Material Symbols as the successor of Material Icons.
@mui/icons-materialonly covers Icons at this time, there are no support for Symbols yet.
Installation
The Material Icons package depends on Material UI—install both with the following command:
npm install @mui/icons-material @mui/material @emotion/styled @emotion/react
Documentation
- Learn more about Material UI's SVG Icon component.
- Browse the available icons on the Material Icons page.
Contributing
The Icons package is updated via a script that reads through Google's Material Icons set and extracts the SVG elements from there. Because of this, we don't accept new icons that diverge from the source.
To update the @mui/icons-material package with the latest Material Icons set, run the following commands:
- In the "mui-icons-material" directory, run
pnpm src:download - In the "mui-icons-material" directory, run
pnpm src:icons - In the root of the Material UI repo, run
pnpm docs:mdicons:synonyms - If the number of icons changes significantly, edit the icons/icons.md and material-icons/material-icons.md under docs/data/material/components and update the numbers.
This process is performed by the maintainers on a quarterly basis.
Other packages similar to @mui/icons-material
react-icons
React-icons is a popular package that provides a large collection of icons from various icon libraries such as Font Awesome, Ionicons, and Material Design icons. It allows for easy integration and customization of icons in React applications, similar to @mui/icons-material, but with a broader range of icon sets.
font-awesome
Font Awesome is a widely used icon set that can be integrated into web projects. It offers both free and pro versions with a large selection of icons. While it is not a React-specific package, it can be used in React applications through the 'react-fontawesome' wrapper. It differs from @mui/icons-material in that it is not specifically designed for Material Design.
mdi-react
MDI-React is a package that provides Material Design Icons for React. It is similar to @mui/icons-material in that it focuses on Material Design icons, but it is a separate project not affiliated with the Material-UI team. It offers a different set of icons and may have different customization options.
FAQs
Material Design icons distributed as SVG React components.
The npm package @mui/icons-material receives a total of 1,931,995 weekly downloads. As such, @mui/icons-material popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @mui/icons-material demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 10 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 03 Dec 2025
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