Free Medical & Health SVG Icons: Healthicons, Medical & COVID Sets

Medical icons are crucial for healthcare applications, patient portals, and medical education platforms: they let clinical concepts be understood at a glance, across languages and literacy levels. This collection covers three open-source packs: Healthicons (built with the WHO and health NGOs, hundreds of specialty-specific symbols), Medical Icon (a focused set of core clinical glyphs), and the COVID-19 icon set for pandemic-related UI. All are free for commercial use, including in patient-facing healthcare products.

3 icon packs · 2,328 total icons · Free & open source

Icon Packs

Health Icons

2,042 icons MIT

Medical Icons

144 icons MIT

Covid Icons

142 icons CC-BY-4.0

Common Use Cases

1 Healthcare and telemedicine applications

2 Patient portals and appointment booking flows

3 Medical education and training materials

4 Health tracking and fitness apps

5 Pharmacy and prescription management tools

6 Hospital wayfinding and department signage systems

Frequently Asked Questions

There is no single universal standard for medical icons, but Healthicons was built in collaboration with the WHO and global health organizations specifically to create a consistent, recognizable visual language for healthcare, making it the closest thing to a standard for digital health interfaces.

Yes. All icon packs in this collection are open source and free for commercial use, including in medical and healthcare applications, patient portals, and telemedicine products. Healthicons is MIT licensed; always double-check the license file bundled with each pack for your specific jurisdiction and use case.

Yes. Healthicons covers a wide range of specialties including cardiology, dentistry, ophthalmology, pediatrics, mental health, and more, plus non-clinical categories like devices, facilities, and administrative icons. Browse the pack page and search by specialty keyword to filter.

Healthicons was specifically designed to avoid Western-centric or ambiguous imagery (a known problem in earlier medical icon sets) and was reviewed by public health practitioners for clarity across literacy levels and regions. That's part of why it's used by WHO digital health tools and NGOs worldwide.

Healthicons is the larger, more comprehensive set with hundreds of icons across dozens of specialties and health system contexts. Medical Icon is a smaller, more focused set of core clinical symbols (stethoscope, pill, syringe, heartbeat). Use Healthicons for a full health app; use Medical Icon for a lightweight project needing just the basics.

Yes. These are single-color SVGs by default, so you can override the fill with CSS (fill: currentColor works if the SVG doesn't hardcode a color) or use our SVG Color Editor tool to batch-recolor and download a themed set.

The SVGs themselves carry no built-in labels, add a descriptive aria-label or wrap with role="img" and accompanying visible text when the icon conveys meaning on its own (for example, an icon-only button). Purely decorative icons next to labeled text should use aria-hidden="true".

Healthicons and Medical Icon are MIT licensed, which technically requires preserving the license notice in your project's documentation or license file, but does not require a visible on-page credit. Check each pack's individual license page linked from its icon grid for exact terms.