Building Custom Icon Solutions
What's happening here is small in scale but recognisable in feeling. Back in late March, a developer published a detailed account of building their own icon platform after losing patience with FontAwesome — walking through each feature decision, each frustration that hardened into a design choice. Then in mid-May, a second developer arrived at almost the same destination by a different route: fed up with installing heavy packages just to get a handful of SVGs, they built their own library from scratch. Two people, six weeks apart, independently deciding that the existing solutions cost more than they were worth.
If confirmed as a genuine pattern rather than coincidence, here is what this means. The dominant icon ecosystems — FontAwesome, Material Icons, the usual suspects — have quietly accumulated enough friction that developers are choosing the effort of building over the convenience of installing. That's a meaningful threshold to cross. The second-order effect is a slow fragmentation of the icon layer in front-end development: instead of converging on shared libraries with consistent semantics and accessibility handling, teams accumulate bespoke solutions that each solve the same problems in slightly different ways. For larger organisations, that's a maintenance debt that compounds quietly. For tooling companies, it's a signal worth examining — not because two blog posts threaten their market share, but because developer frustration, once it finds its voice in public writing, tends to be expressing something that's already widespread and largely unspoken.
Watch for similar posts accumulating on platforms like Hashnode or Reddit's webdev communities, or for existing icon library maintainers acknowledging bundle size and dependency weight in their roadmap discussions — either would suggest this dissatisfaction has real mass behind it.
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