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title: "Premium Quality Icons - Drawn In-House, Not Sourced"
product: "Streamline Icons, Illustrations and Elements"
url: /premium-quality-icons
canonical_url: "https://design.streamlinehq.com/premium-quality-icons"
summary: "What makes an icon premium is craft, not price. Every Streamline icon is drawn in-house by one team of 8 designers and maintained for years."
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# Premium quality icons, drawn in-house

> What makes an icon premium is craft, not price. Every Streamline icon is drawn in-house by one team of 8 designers and maintained for years.
- **URL**: https://design.streamlinehq.com/premium-quality-icons

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* The only icon system: massive, consistent sets
* Drawn in-house by one team of 8 veteran designers
* Returned to and improved, not launched and abandoned

[See the Free Sets First](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons)

## The five rules every icon is drawn against

Streamline's own published standard for what a good icon has to do.

|            | What it means                                       |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Universal  | Reads the same across cultures and contexts         |
| Simple     | Stripped of irrelevant detail, short of abstraction |
| Legible    | Survives reduction, still reads at small sizes      |
| Nonverbal  | Avoids letters, which tie an icon to one language   |
| Consistent | Built on defined construction rules across the set  |

## A marketplace or a studio?

The difference shows up in consistency, coverage, and what happens after launch.

|                           | Marketplace                     | Streamline                        |
| ------------------------- | ------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
| Who draws the icons       | Many sellers, varying standards | One in-house team of 8            |
| Consistency across a set  | Varies by contributor           | Reviewed and harmonized           |
| Coverage of rare concepts | Gaps are common                 | Built to cover the whole use case |
| After launch              | Often never updated again       | Ultimate redrawn five times       |
| Missing an icon           | Find another seller             | Drawn for you at no extra cost    |

## Ultimate: redrawn five times since launch

1,000 free icons per set across 5 styles. Encyclopedic coverage, from common to rare icons. A neutral style that fits most use cases.

* **Ultimate Light**: [1,000 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/ultimate-light-free), [17,683 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-light)
* **Ultimate Regular**: [1,000 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/ultimate-regular-free), [16,751 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-regular)
* **Ultimate Bold**: [1,000 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/ultimate-bold-free), [18,541 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-bold)
* **Ultimate Colors**: [1,000 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/ultimate-colors-free), [10,456 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-colors)
* **Ultimate Duotone**: [1,000 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/ultimate-duotone-free), [10,935 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/streamline-duotone)

## Core: stripped to essential form

Core is the Helvetica of icons, stripped to its essential form with generous spacing. 998 free icons across 8 styles.

* **Core Line**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-line-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-line)
* **Core Solid**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-solid-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-solid)
* **Core Flat**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-flat-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-flat)
* **Core Gradient**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-gradient-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-gradient)
* **Core Duo**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-duo-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-duo-color)
* **Core Neon**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-neon-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-neon)
* **Core Pop**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-pop-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-pop-style)
* **Core Remix**: [998 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-remix-free), [5,615 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/core-remix)

## Micro: legibility taken to its limit

Micro is built on a tiny 10px grid, with no room for unnecessary detail. Every stroke serves legibility. 200 free icons across 2 styles.

* **Micro Line**: [200 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/micro-line-free), [2,035 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/micro-line)
* **Micro Solid**: [200 free icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/micro-solid-free), [2,035 pro icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons/micro-solid)

## What the standard buys you

### No Mixing, No Tweaking

Streamline exists because its founder got tired of stitching sets together from different creators and editing each icon to match. A complete set removes that step entirely.

### Maintained, Not Abandoned

Plenty of icon sets launch and are never expanded again. These get returned to and improved, which is what makes them worth building a product on.

## Works in your tools

* [Mac App](https://home.streamlinehq.com/plugins/download): Drag and drop icons directly into any app
* [Figma](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/852192486284901337): Browse and insert icons without leaving Figma
* [Framer](https://www.framer.com/marketplace/plugins/core-icons-by-streamline/): Use icons natively in Framer projects
* [Webflow](https://webflow.com/apps/detail/streamline-icons): Add icons directly to Webflow sites
* [VS Code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streamline.streamline-icons): Insert icons as SVG or JSX in editors
* [Lucid](https://lucid.co/marketplace/01f05f6d/streamline-icons-illustrations-emojis-and-elements): Add icons to your Lucidchart diagrams
* [Miro](https://miro.com/marketplace/streamline/): Drop icons into your Miro boards
* [Adobe Express](https://adobesparkpost.app.link/TR9Mb7TXFLb?addOnId=w165n33k3): Use icons in Adobe Express projects

## Judge the quality before you pay

The free sets are drawn to the same standard as the paid ones. Pro unlocks the rest of the library.

### Free: $0

* 109,582 icons
* Mandatory attribution
* All plugins, web app, MCP and API (limited)
* Adjust size, color and format

[Get started](https://www.streamlinehq.com/free)

### Pro subscription: $19 per month

* 333,032 pro icons on top
* No attribution required
* 58 pro sets in 11 families
* All plugins, web app, MCP and API
* Pay monthly or yearly

[Get Pro](https://www.streamlinehq.com/pricing)

### One-time purchase: Lifetime

* Buy once, own forever
* Future assets included
* All source files as a ZIP
* All plugins, web app, MCP and API
* No renewal fees

[Get Lifetime](https://www.streamlinehq.com/lifetime)

## Premium Is a Standard, Not a Price

Streamline publishes the standard it designs against: an icon should be universal, simple, legible, nonverbal, and consistent. Those five rules are the whole definition of quality here.

The studio's own summary of it is that form follows function. If an icon is simple, recognizable, and carries a real message, it will inevitably be beautiful.

## Why the Sets Are Drawn In-House

Most icon marketplaces are exactly that: a marketplace, with many sellers and standards that move from one contributor to the next. Streamline took the opposite route and kept everything in-house with one team of veteran designers.

That is what makes true consistency possible, because every icon is reviewed and harmonized against the others rather than merely accepted. 16 years of doing it the slow way is the reason the sets match.

## Where the Whole Thing Started

Vincent Le Moign had been doing web and interface design since 1998, and redrawing icons for every project was the part that never stopped being repetitive.

Buying packs did not fix it. The right icon was hard to find, the sets were too small, and the styles did not match, so he ended up mixing sets from different creators and tweaking each one. Streamline began as the framework he built to stop doing that.

## Quality That Stays Bought

An icon set is only as good as its upkeep. Many sets launch, get some attention, and are never expanded or maintained again, which leaves the products built on them stranded.

Ultimate has been redrawn five times since it first launched. The intent is that the assets stay useful, consistent, and maintained year after year.

## Frequently asked questions

Quick answers about what premium quality means in icon design.

### What makes an icon premium quality?

Craft rather than price. Streamline designs against five rules: an icon should be universal, simple, legible, nonverbal, and consistent. A set that holds all five across thousands of icons is the hard part.

### How is this different from an icon marketplace?

A marketplace collects work from many sellers, so standards shift between contributors. Streamline is drawn entirely in-house by one team of 8 designers, and every icon is reviewed and harmonized against the rest of the set.

### Are premium icons worth paying for?

It depends on whether consistency matters to your project. Streamline's free tier is 109,582 icons across 34 families, which is enough to judge the quality before paying anything.

### Do the sets get updated after launch?

Yes. The team returns to older icons and improves them. Ultimate has been redrawn five times since it originally launched.

### What if the icon I need does not exist?

If a concept genuinely is not in the library, the design team will draw it for you at no additional cost.

### Where can I see the quality for myself?

Start with the free tier at [streamlinehq.com/icons](https://www.streamlinehq.com/icons). The free sets are drawn to the same standard as the paid ones, which is the point of making them generous.