Icon Fonts

Out of the box, Vuetify supports 4 popular icon font libraries—Material Design Icons, Material Icons, Font Awesome 4and Font Awesome 5.


Usage

To change your font library, import one of the pre-defined icon sets or provide your own.

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, mdi } from 'vuetify/iconsets/mdi'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'mdi',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      mdi,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="mdi-home" />
</template>

In the above examples we import the default mdi icon set and its corresponding aliases. These aliases reference commonly used types of icons that are utilized by Vuetify components.

Installing icon fonts

You are required to include the specified icon library (even when using the default icons from Material Design Icons). This can be done by including a CDN link or importing the icon library into your application.

Material Design Icons

This is the default icon set used by Vuetify. It supports local installation with a build process or a CDN link. The following shows how to add the CDN link to your index.html:

MDI - CSS

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mdi/font@5.x/css/materialdesignicons.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

Or as a local dependency:

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import '@mdi/font/css/materialdesignicons.css' // Ensure you are using css-loader
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'mdi', // This is already the default value - only for display purposes
  },
})

MDI - JS SVG

This is the recommended installation when optimizing your application for production, as only icons used for Vuetify components internally will be imported into your application bundle. You will need to provide your own icons for the rest of the app.

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, mdi } from 'vuetify/iconsets/mdi-svg'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'mdi',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      mdi,
    },
  },
})

@mdi/js or unplugin-iconsare two alternatives to get the rest of the icons that you will need in your application.

If you want to stick with @mdi/js, use the SVG paths as designated in @mdi/jsand only import the icons that you need.

The following example shows how to use an imported icon within a .vue SFC template:

<template>
  <v-icon :icon="mdiAccount" />
</template>

<script setup>
  import { mdiAccount } from '@mdi/js'
</script>

Or the icons you want to use can be added as aliases to simplify reuse:

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, mdi } from 'vuetify/iconsets/mdi-svg'
import { mdiAccount } from '@mdi/js'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'mdi',
    aliases: {
      ...aliases,
      account: mdiAccount,
    },
    sets: {
      mdi,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="$account" />
</template>

Material Icons

For projects without a build process, it is recommended to import the icons from CDN.

Material Icons - CSS

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Material+Icons" rel="stylesheet">

Some Material Icons are missing by default. For example, person and person_outline are available, but visibility_outline isn’t, while visibility is. To use the missing icons, replace the existing <link> with the following:

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Material+Icons|Material+Icons+Outlined|Material+Icons+Two+Tone|Material+Icons+Round|Material+Icons+Sharp"
/>

Alternatively, it is possible to install locally using yarn or npm. Keep in mind that this is not an official google repository and may not contain all icons.

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import 'material-design-icons-iconfont/dist/material-design-icons.css' // Ensure your project is capable of handling css files
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, md } from 'vuetify/iconsets/md'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'md',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      md,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="home" />
</template>

Font Awesome

The easiest way to get started with FontAwesome is to use a CDN.

FA 5 - CSS

<link href="https://use.fontawesome.com/releases/v5.0.13/css/all.css" rel="stylesheet">

To install locally you can pull in the freeversion of FontAwesome using your preferred package manager:

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import '@fortawesome/fontawesome-free/css/all.css' // Ensure your project is capable of handling css files
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, fa } from 'vuetify/iconsets/fa'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'fa',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      fa,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="fas fa-home" />
</template>

FA 4 - CSS

The easiest way to get started with FontAwesome is to use a CDN.

<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/font-awesome@4.x/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet">

To install FontAwesome 4 locally is the same as its newer version, just from a different package. You will be using the font-awesome package as opposed to @fortawesome.

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import 'font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css' // Ensure your project is capable of handling css files
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, fa } from 'vuetify/iconsets/fa4'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'fa',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      fa,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="fa-check" />
</template>

FA 5 - SVG

Install the following packages.

Then register the global font-awesome-icon component and use the pre-defined fa-svg icon set. If you have access to Font Awesome Pro icons they can be added to the library in the same way.

src/main.js
import { createApp } from 'vue'
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, fa } from 'vuetify/iconsets/fa-svg'
import { library } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core'
import { FontAwesomeIcon } from '@fortawesome/vue-fontawesome'
import { fas } from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons'
import { far } from '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons'

const app = createApp()

app.component('font-awesome-icon', FontAwesomeIcon) // Register component globally
library.add(fas) // Include needed solid icons
library.add(far) // Include needed regular icons

const vuetify = createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'fa',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      fa,
    },
  },
})

app.use(vuetify)

app.mount('#app')

<template>
  <v-icon icon="fas fa-home" />
</template>

Multiple icon sets

Out of the box, Vuetify supports the use of multiple different icon sets at the same time. The following example demonstrates how to change the default icon font to Font Awesome (fa) while still maintaining access to the original Material Design Icons (mdi) through the use of a prefix:

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, fa } from 'vuetify/iconsets/fa'
import { mdi } from 'vuetify/iconsets/mdi'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'fa',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      fa,
      mdi,
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="fas fa-plus" /> // This renders a FontAwesome icon
  <v-icon icon="mdi:mdi-minus" /> // This renders a MDI icon
</template>

Creating a custom icon set

An icon set consists of an object with one property component which should be a functional component that receives props of type IconsProps, and renders an icon.

In order to use a custom set as the default icon set, you must also add the necessary aliases that correspond to values used by Vuetify components.

src/iconsets/custom.ts
import { h } from 'vue'
import type { IconSet, IconAliases, IconProps } from 'vuetify'

const aliases: IconAliases = {
  collapse: '...',
  complete: '...',
  cancel: '...',
  close: '...',
  delete: '...',
  clear: '...',
  success: '...',
  info: '...',
  warning: '...',
  error: '...',
  prev: '...',
  next: '...',
  checkboxOn: '...',
  checkboxOff: '...',
  checkboxIndeterminate: '...',
  delimiter: '...',
  sort: '...',
  expand: '...',
  menu: '...',
  subgroup: '...',
  dropdown: '...',
  radioOn: '...',
  radioOff: '...',
  edit: '...',
  ratingEmpty: '...',
  ratingFull: '...',
  ratingHalf: '...',
  loading: '...',
  first: '...',
  last: '...',
  unfold: '...',
  file: '...',
  plus: '...',
  minus: '...',
}

const custom: IconSet = {
  component: (props: IconProps) => h(...),
}

export { aliases, custom }
src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, custom } from '../iconsets/custom'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    defaultSet: 'custom',
    aliases,
    sets: {
      custom,
    },
  },
})

Extending available aliases

If you are developing custom Vuetify components, you can extend the aliases object to utilize the same functionality that internal Vuetify components use. Icon aliases are referenced with an initial $ followed by the name of the alias, e.g. $product.

src/plugins/vuetify.js
import { createVuetify } from 'vuetify'
import { aliases, mdi } from 'vuetify/iconsets/mdi'

export default createVuetify({
  icons: {
    aliases: {
      ...aliases,
      product: 'mdi-dropbox',
      support: 'mdi-lifebuoy',
    },
  },
})

<template>
  <v-icon icon="$product" />
  <v-icon icon="$support" />
</template>

Ready for more?

Continue your learning with related content selected by the Team or move between pages by using the navigation links below.
Icons
Components
Buttons
Components
Avatars
Components
Edit this page onGitHub