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Lucide vs Heroicons

Side-by-side comparison of two indie startups from the Startup Spotlight directory.

Option A
Lucide

Lucide

Developer Tools

Beautiful & consistent icon toolkit.

Lucide is a community-maintained fork of Feather with 1,400+ open-source icons — the default icon library for shadcn/ui.

Founder
Eric Atkin
Founded
2020
Team
1-10
Listing
Free (nofollow)
Listed
May 2026
View Lucide →
Option B
Heroicons

Heroicons

Developer Tools

Beautiful hand-crafted SVG icons by the makers of Tailwind CSS.

Heroicons is a free SVG icon set by Steve Schoger and the Tailwind Labs team — the default icon set for thousands of Tailwind sites.

Founder
Steve Schoger
Founded
2020
Team
11-50
Listing
Free (nofollow)
Listed
May 2026
View Heroicons →

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