Material Icons Library

A proof of concept tool to generate a Sketch Library from Google's Material Design Icons. For more information, see the related article at URL.

Requirements

• A recent version of node (we're using v14.17.0 at the moment of writing this)
• A recent version of yarn (we're using v1.22.5 at the moment of writing this)
• A recent version of Visual Studio Code

Once that's ready:

• Clone the repository.
• cd to the project folder.
• run yarn install to install all the dependencies and download a copy of the Material Design Icon Library assets. This will take a while.
• run yarn start to generate the Sketch Library. Depending on your computer setup, this will take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes. For reference, building the Library takes about 9 seconds on a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. You can also use yarn open to build the library and then open the resulting file in Sketch.

If all went well, you'll now have a material-design-icons.sketch file on your project folder. It'll be about 11 Mb in size, with all the Material Design Icons neatly positioned on a grid on the Symbols page.

Bonus

If you don't feel like installing anything, there is an Action in the repo that runs the project and generates the .sketch file as an Action Artifact you can download here: https://github.com/sketch-hq/material-icons-library/actions