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edent/supertinyicons

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TLDR

A collection of 477 brand and app logo icons as tiny SVG files, each under 1 kilobyte, small enough to inline directly in HTML without slowing your page down.

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    What it does
      SVG brand icons
      Under 1 KB each
      Crisp at any size
    Format
      Plain SVG files
      512x512 viewbox
      Circle-shaped fit
    Use Cases
      Social share buttons
      Login provider buttons
      Footer service links
    Examples
      GitHub icon
      Twitter icon
      Bitcoin icon
    Audience
      Web developers
      Designers
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Add social-media share buttons to a website using tiny SVG icons that load almost instantly even on slow connections.

USE CASE 2

Display login-provider buttons (GitHub, Google, Apple) on a sign-in page without importing a heavy icon library.

USE CASE 3

Show a list of supported services in a footer or comparison table using crisp, lightweight brand icons.

Tech stack

SVGPython

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
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In plain English

Super Tiny Icons is a collection of extremely small SVG versions of popular website and app logos. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an image format made of math-like instructions rather than pixels, which means it stays crisp at any size and is usually very small. The project's headline boast is that every icon in the set is under 1 kilobyte, the README states there are 477 icons, with an average size under 534 bytes. By comparison, the same logos rendered as PNG (a pixel-based image format) come in many times larger, for example, the GitHub icon is 527 bytes as an SVG but 3,328 bytes as a PNG. The way it works is that each icon is hand-crafted to fit inside a 512×512 viewbox and is shaped to fit comfortably inside a circle of radius 256. Because they are vector files, they will scale up and down without losing sharpness, so the same file can be used as a tiny inline button or blown up much larger without becoming blurry. The repository lists each icon in a visual table along with its exact byte size, alongside names like GitHub, Twitter, Apple, Amazon, Android, Bitcoin, Bluesky, Blender, Bitwarden, and many more. You would use this collection when you are building a website or app and want to show recognizable brand or service icons without bloating your page weight, social-media share buttons, login-provider buttons, footer links, or a list of supported services. Because the files are so small, they are friendly to slow connections and quick to render. The repository's listed primary language is Python (likely used for tooling around the SVG set), but the icons themselves are plain SVG files you can drop directly into HTML.

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Prompt 1
I want to add a GitHub and Twitter icon to my website's footer using Super Tiny Icons. Show me how to inline the SVG directly in HTML and style it with CSS to change the color on hover.
Prompt 2
I need social login buttons for GitHub, Google, and Apple on a sign-in page. Show me how to use Super Tiny Icons SVG files as button images and style them consistently.
Prompt 3
I want to use Super Tiny Icons in a React project. Show me how to import an SVG as a React component and use it as an inline icon in a button.
Prompt 4
Give me the HTML and CSS to create a row of social media icon links in a website footer using Super Tiny Icons SVG files, keeping the total added page weight under 5 KB.
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