Ant Design Icons vs Clarity Design System

Ant Design Icons provides semantic vector graphics for interfaces, with 498 icons in outlined, filled, and two-tone styles. Icons render as SVG and accept styling properties such as size and color; two-tone icons can use one or two specified colors. The API also supports rotation, animation, and custom icon components. Packages are listed for Vanilla, React, React Native, Angular, and Vue. Developers can integrate their own SVGs through webpack with @svgr/webpack or Vite with vite-plugin-svgr, or use SVG sprite symbols generated by iconfont.cn projects. The React package can be installed with npm, yarn, pnpm, or Bun, and the documentation recommends matching @ant-design/icons 6.x with antd 6.x. SVG icons support offline use without a CDN-hosted font file. Importing the full set can add bundle size, so the documentation points to importing icons as needed. The project repository identifies its license as MIT; commercial use is allowed. It is free, with a free plan and no free trial. The project was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

Clarity Design System is a free, open-source toolkit for enterprise-focused interface design, with inclusion at its center. It combines design assets—including Figma themes, icons, color libraries, fonts and downloadable SVG icons—with more than 30 components and over 200 icons. Clarity Core provides reusable Web Components for Angular, React, Vue, other JavaScript frameworks, or projects without a framework. It is compatible with Webpack, RollupJS, Parcel and most framework CLIs. React projects need the additional @cds/react wrapper because React does not fully interoperate with custom elements. The datagrid supports more than a dozen features and thousands of data entries. Clarity follows WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines and has a dedicated accessibility team; accessibility checks cover multiple tools, screen readers and browser combinations. The code is licensed under MIT. Community questions go through GitHub Discussions, while issues and feature requests are tracked in GitHub Issues. Each major release is actively supported for six months after the next major release becomes available. Clarity Core currently requires a JavaScript bundler to import its dependencies.