{
  "id": 8152751,
  "title": "330,000 free icons for video, and every one of them can draw itself on",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/330-000-free-icons-for-video-and-every-one-of-them-can-draw-itself-on",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-18T02:20:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/codeideal/330000-free-icons-for-video-and-every-one-of-them-can-draw-itself-on-gnd"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "AtomCut, a free motion design and video editor, has launched an Icons panel featuring Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Material Symbols, Simple Icons, emoji sets, flag sets, and 208 open-source icon sets, totaling 337,000 icons. These icons can be easily incorporated into a video by simply dragging them onto the canvas, where they will draw themselves in over 900 milliseconds. The icons are sourced from various open icon sets published in the Iconify data format, which supplies the SVG body and viewBox. AtomCut queries a public API for the icons, utilizing a Cloudflare Worker that caches answers at the edge for faster access. A licence gate ensures that only icons with commercial-use licenses are included, removing 238 sets from the catalogue. Unlike previous icon implementations that treated them as separate layers, AtomCut stores icons as groups of path layers, retaining all the functionality of individual path layers. This approach allows for easy editing, keyframing, and morphing of the icons while preserving their inherent properties.",
  "summary": "AtomCut now ships an Icons panel: Lucide, Tabler, Phosphor, Material Symbols, Simple Icons, the emoji sets, the flag sets, 208 open-source icon sets and 337,000 icons, searchable from inside the editor and dropped onto the canvas as ordinary vector layers. Pick an ink, a size and an entrance in the panel's footer, drag an icon onto the stage or a timeline lane, and it lands drawing itself on: the…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}