Phosphor Icons vs Remix Icons – Comparison & Guide
Phosphor Icons vs Remix Icons: styles, icon count, React support, and which fits your design system better. Full comparison for 2026.
Both Phosphor and Remix Icons offer multi-weight SVG icon sets for general product UI. Phosphor goes further with six weights including Duotone; Remix keeps it simpler with Line and Fill.
The style difference
Phosphor Icons offers six visual weights per icon: Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, Fill, and Duotone. This makes it uniquely flexible for design systems that need a single icon family at different visual intensities. The set covers ~1,200 base icons.
Remix Icons offers two weights per icon: Line and Fill. With ~2,800 icons in total, Remix has significantly broader coverage than Phosphor in raw icon count.
Regular weight compared
House
User
Magnifying Glass
Bell
Gear
Arrow Right
Home Line
User Line
Search Line
Notification Line
Settings Line
Arrow Right LinePhosphor’s style weights
One of Phosphor’s main strengths is the range of visual weights — useful for creating visual hierarchy with a consistent icon family:
Phosphor Duotone adds a second visual layer at 30% opacity — one of the few free icon libraries with this style.
React integration
npm install @phosphor-icons/react
npm install remixicon// Phosphor — specify weight as prop
import { House } from '@phosphor-icons/react';
<House size={24} /> // Regular
<House size={24} weight="bold" /> // Bold
<House size={24} weight="duotone" /> // Duotone
// Remix — separate Line/Fill component names
import { RiHomeLine, RiHomeFill } from 'remixicon-react';
<RiHomeLine size={24} />
<RiHomeFill size={24} />Phosphor’s API is elegantly simple — one component, weight as a prop. Remix requires importing different component names for each weight.
Vue & Svelte support
- Phosphor: Official
@phosphor-icons/vuepackage - Remix Icons: CSS/font file; works via Iconify in any framework
Design system suitability
| Feature | Phosphor | Remix |
|---|---|---|
| Style weights | 6 (Thin → Duotone) | 2 (Line, Fill) |
| Base icon count | ~1,200 | ~2,800 |
| Duotone style | ✓ (free) | ✗ |
| React package | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vue package | ✓ | via Iconify |
| License | MIT | Apache 2.0 |
When to choose each
- Phosphor — design system with multiple visual weights, duotone style requirement, or when you want a single icon family that adapts to different UI densities
- Remix — broad icon coverage with a simpler two-weight system, larger icon catalog
Frequently asked questions
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