Am I the only one who thinks designers should hand-code their own icon sets instead of buying them? | Crafting With Code

Max Green · 2026-09-19T09:50:02.460075+00:00

Last month at a coffee shop in Austin, a designer I met at a local meetup saw my hand-coded SVG icon set and said point blank, "Why waste 20 hours when you can buy 500 for $19?" Now I'm stuck wondering if that time is better spent on client work instead of pixel pushing, but I keep coming back to the freedom of tweaking every curve exactly how I want it. Where do you all draw the line between building it yourself and buying a pack?

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