The unique collection features a wide variety of easily recognizable Christian symbols that require no attribution and can be freely resized, recolored, and adapted.
Catholic digital entrepreneur Dimitri Conejo launched Christicons.com, a free library offering over 60 icons featuring “professional and consistent iconography” for use by Christian faith-based initiatives.
The available icons include fundamental Christian elements such as the cross and the Bible as well as liturgical references such as a chalice, a host, and an altar.
The library also includes imagery related to Jesus’ parables: wheat, fishing nets, and fish. It also has sacramental or devotional symbols such as a rosary and the Sacred Heart, and items linked to the sacraments or liturgical vestments, including a stole, a confessional, a clerical collar, and a mitre, among others.
As stated in a press release: “Christicons fills a gap that any designer or developer who has worked for a parish, a devotional app, or a publisher of religious books knows firsthand: There is a lack of high-quality, consistent, and free-to-use SVG [scalable vector graphics] icons that speak the visual language of the Christian world.”
The graphics scale to any size without losing quality and can be colored, resized, or modified with a single line of code.
Their use “is completely free for personal and commercial projects. No attribution is required … The only restriction, a clear and reasonable one, is that they cannot be redistributed as a standalone collection or used to train artificial intelligence models,” the statement specifies.
This Christian iconographic library is part of an ecosystem of digital ventures by Dimconex Media, which aims to “equip Catholicism — and Christianity in a broad sense — with the digital resources that the secular world takes for granted.”
Christicons.com joins the Catholic image library Cathopic; the online learning platform Holydemia; the digital tool supporting consecration to the Virgin Mary, Mater Coeli; and the digital Catholic magazine dedicated to culture, thought, and spirituality, Tolkian.
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.
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