June 12, 2026
How to manage icon colour variants in a design system (without shipping 5 sprite files)
If your design system supports dark mode, a brand colour palette, and two regional themes — and your icon library is built on SVG sprites — you're probably shipping somewhere between four and eight separate sprite files. One per colour variant.
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What Is a COLR Font?
If you've built a design system that ships icons, you've probably dealt with this problem: PNG sprites are large, SVG sprites are fiddly, and icon fonts (the classic IcoMoon approach) are monochrome. Swap colours? New asset. Dark mode? New asset. Brand theme? Another asset.
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