Single vector icons and icon sheets

Icons and icon sheets are one of the most popular types of vectors for Adobe Stock customers. Anyone who designs marketing materials, layouts, interfaces, and animations needs to be able to find consistent, communicative content quickly for all their projects.

You can now identify your vector submissions as either “Single icons” or “Icon sheets” in the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal. When you upload AI or SVG files in the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal, you will now be able to see a checkbox for identifying vectors as icons:

It’s important to only tag simple symbols as icons so that Adobe Stock customers can easily find what they are looking for. Tag your vectors as single icons or icon sheets when the asset in question might be used as a simple interface, navigation, or infographic element in a design project.

Do: Tag glyphs, symbols and simple SVG vectors as “single icons” and sheets of icons as “icon sheets”.

Do: Make sure icons have transparent backgrounds and transparent negative space.

Do: Make sure icons are single merged or compound shapes with strokes and texts outlined as paths.

Don’t: Tag collage elements, text assets, or other Creative Components as icons. Only glyphs, symbols and simple shapes should be tagged as icons.

Don’t: Upload icons smaller than 500px.

Don’t: Add marketing text, descriptive text, or titles to the icons or icon sheets themselves.

Learn more about icon design in Adobe Illustrator.

Best practices for icon assets

In order to make icons and icon sheets practical and easy-to-use across different projects, we recommend uploading single icons in larger dimensions than typically needed, and icon sheets with consistent padding around each individual asset.

While we accept all vector filetypes, icons are most often used as SVG and PNG files in customer projects. Uploading single icons as SVG files and icon sheets as SVG files (smaller sheets) or AI files (larger sheets) can provide more functionality for experienced vector editors.

Upload single icons with consistent naming and keyword systems and group icon sheets by similar themes or styles so that assets can be easily surfaced and purchased together. Consider how a buyer might need to crop a JPEG version or edit a layered version of the asset when you organize icon sheets.

Learn more about vector best practices and vector submission guidelines for Adobe Stock.