STOPPING THE ICON SPRAWL IN LARGE COMPONENT LIBRARIES

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Icon fragmentation across shared React libraries stems from teams pulling mismatched assets, prompting platforms like Icons8 to offer 1.4 million assets organized into consistent visual styles. Its Collections feature lets teams build, bulk-recolor, and export unified asset sets as SVG sprite sheets, while animated Lottie icons and in-browser overlay editors handle micro-interactions and custom states. Limitations remain, including generic visual identity, restrictive free-tier formats, and simplified SVGs that complicate path-level customization.