479 Logos That Weigh Less Than a Tweet
You've probably shipped a page where the icon set weighed more than the content it decorated. A single PNG logo can eat tens of kilobytes, and before you know it, your "lightweight" landing page is dragging in a megabyte of branding. Super Tiny Icons takes the opposite approach: it's a collection of 479 SVG logos where every single file comes in under 1KB.
What It Does
Super Tiny Icons is a repository of minuscule SVG versions of well-known logos—GitHub, Twitter, Flickr, Amazon, Android, Angular, and hundreds more. Each icon is a hand-tuned SVG file, and the average size across the whole set is under 534 bytes. That's not a typo. Some individual icons clock in at 220 bytes (Adobe) or 235 bytes (Flickr).
Every logo uses a consistent 512x512 viewbox and is designed to fit within a circle of radius 256, so they'll scale up and down cleanly wherever you drop them. The set spans a wide range of brands—developer tools, consumer apps, payment providers, frameworks, and Linux distributions all show up in the collection.
Why It's Cool
The headline number is the whole pitch, and it holds up. The README puts it bluntly with a side-by-side comparison: the GitHub logo is 527 bytes as an SVG versus 3,328 bytes as a PNG. Twitter comes in at 352 bytes SVG against 2,987 bytes PNG. Flickr is 235 bytes SVG versus 1,615 bytes PNG. When you're stacking a dozen icons in a footer or a nav bar, those savings compound fast.
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Consistent geometry. The uniform 512x512 viewbox and the circle-of-radius-256 constraint mean you don't have to eyeball each icon to make sure it sits right next to its neighbors. They're designed to play well together.
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Genuinely tiny, not just "optimized." Plenty of projects claim small file sizes after a build step. These are the files themselves—the actual assets you commit and serve, already lean.
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Broad coverage. With 479 icons, there's a decent chance the brand you need is already in there. The set ranges from household names to niche developer tooling like Alpine Linux, Ansible, and Amber Framework.
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A citable dataset. The README carries a Zenodo DOI, which tells you the maintainer treats this as a stable, referenceable artifact—useful if you're citing it in research or documentation.
There's something quietly satisfying about a project that treats "small" as a hard constraint rather than a nice-to-have. It's a reminder that most of the weight in a typical icon set is optional.
How to Try It
Getting started is about as simple as it gets, since these are just static SVG files.
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Head to the repository and browse the icon set. The README includes a browsable table showing each logo alongside its exact byte count.
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Grab the SVG you need—either from the repo directly or from the hosted image URLs the README uses (they follow the pattern
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Drop it into your project like any other asset. Since they're plain SVGs with a consistent viewbox, you can inline them, reference them via
<img>, or use them as background images without extra configuration.
There are no build tools, no package manager, and no dependencies to install. You copy a file and you're done.
Final Thoughts
Super Tiny Icons isn't trying to be a full-fledged icon library with theming, variants, and a CLI. It's a focused, slightly obsessive collection of extremely small logo files—and that focus is exactly what makes it useful. If you're building something where every kilobyte counts (a status page, a docs site, an offline-first app) or you just appreciate well-crafted minimal assets, this is worth a bookmark. Credit to the maintainer for turning a simple idea into a genuinely practical resource—and for keeping the average under 534 bytes across 479 files. That's a discipline most icon sets don't bother with.
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