Icons without a build step

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Icon fonts ship every glyph to every visitor. Sprite sheets need a build step and a naming convention nobody remembers. Liftoff takes a third route: it fetches each icon from the Iconify API while Hugo builds, and inlines the SVG.

 go-html-template
 
{{ partial "icon.html" "simple-icons:codeberg" }}

Any set on Iconify works, addressed as set:name. A bare name falls back to Material Design Icons, so check and mdi:check are the same icon.

Icons on Liftoff

Icons without a build step