Health Icons
A free, open-source icon library dedicated to public health and medical projects worldwide.
What is Health Icons?
Health Icons is an open-source icon library specifically curated for public health and medical projects. It provides a comprehensive set of visual symbols covering medical equipment, procedures, diseases, and health services, all released under a public domain (CC0) license. The project solves the problem of finding high-quality, freely usable health-related icons for software, presentations, and educational materials.
Public health organizations, healthcare software developers, medical researchers, and designers working on health-related digital products or communications.
Developers and organizations choose Health Icons because it offers a specialized, legally unencumbered icon set focused entirely on health topics, supported by an active community and integrated with tools like Figma. Its CC0 license removes all barriers to use and modification.
Overview
A collection of open source icons for public health projects.
Use Cases
Best For
- Building public health dashboards and data visualization tools
- Designing healthcare mobile apps and patient portals
- Creating educational materials for medical training programs
- Developing DHIS2 implementations requiring metadata icons
- Adding medical symbols to electronic health record (EHR) interfaces
- Producing health campaign materials and awareness graphics
Not Ideal For
- Projects needing a general-purpose icon library for diverse, non-health topics
- Teams requiring multiple icon styles like duotone, gradient, or animated beyond outline and filled
- Applications where guaranteed, rapid icon additions are critical, as updates depend on volunteer availability
Pros & Cons
Pros
Icons are released under CC0 license, allowing unrestricted use, modification, and distribution without attribution, as stated in the README for any project.
The library is tailored for public health and medical concepts, including DHIS2 metadata support, making it ideal for healthcare applications and dashboards.
Icons come in outline and filled styles with SVG and PNG formats at 48px and 96px resolutions, and many in 24px for flexible integration.
New icons can be requested via GitHub issues, and volunteers can contribute through Figma, fostering an active, inclusive ecosystem for growth.
Cons
Icon requests and additions rely on volunteer efforts, leading to potentially slow or inconsistent response times, as highlighted in the contribution workflow.
Only outline and filled styles are provided, lacking color variants or other popular styles like duotone, which may limit design flexibility.
Not all icons are available in the 24px format—the README notes 'many' have it—which can cause issues for uniform small-scale implementations.
Frequently Asked Questions
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