Catholic entrepreneur launches free library of hand-designed Christian internet icons

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…