Free Download: RSS Feed Badges Icons
- RSS never actually died — podcasts, newsletters, and privacy-conscious readers all still run on it, so a feed badge is still a legitimate thing to put on a site.
- Below are real, currently-live sources for free RSS icons and badges, in SVG, PNG, and icon-font formats.
- If you’d rather not download anything at all, the second half of this post shows you how to build the classic orange feed icon with nothing but CSS — no image file, no icon font, fully recolorable and scalable.
Where to Get Free RSS Feed Icons
Here are real, working sources — not a recycled list of dead links. Always check the license on the specific icon you pick; “free” on these sites usually means free with attribution unless you’re on a paid plan.
1. FeedIcons.com — the original standard RSS icon
This is the closest thing RSS has to an official icon source. The site is home of the standard feed icon and offers a package with the two standard feed icons, as well as a larger devkit with sizes from 12×12 up to 128×128 in formats including AI, EPS, SVG, PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, and GIF. If you want the icon that’s instantly recognizable as “the” RSS symbol, start here.
2. Flaticon
Flaticon offers over 2,704 RSS-related icons alone, plus separate collections for feed and RSS combined (685 icons) and RSS feed specifically (978 icons), all downloadable in SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS, or as webfonts. It’s the deepest single library on this list if you want variety in style — flat, outline, glyph, gradient, and so on.
3. Untitled UI Icons
Untitled UI offers a free RSS SVG icon for web and UI designs, available in SVG format and as part of a Figma library with over 230k downloads. If you’re already designing in Figma and want an icon that matches a clean, modern UI kit rather than a dated 2000s-web style, this is the better pick over the classic orange badge.
4. Freepik / Magnific
Freepik (now operating as Magnific) offers a collection of RSS feed icons in PNG and SVG format, downloadable or editable directly online. Good option if you want to tweak stroke weight or color before exporting, without opening a separate design tool.
5. FreeVector.com
FreeVector hosts RSS feed icon vector packs, including sets of internet/communication symbols designed specifically to publish blog entries, audio and video posts, and news headlines. Useful if you want the badge bundled with related web/communication iconography rather than RSS in isolation.
Comparison at a Glance
| Source | Best for | Formats | License note |
|---|---|---|---|
| FeedIcons.com | The classic, recognizable orange badge | AI, EPS, SVG, PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF | Free, standard icon — check site for current terms |
| Flaticon | Widest style variety | SVG, PSD, PNG, EPS, webfont | Free with attribution, or premium for no-attribution use |
| Untitled UI Icons | Modern UI kits / Figma workflows | SVG, Figma library | Free for web/UI use |
| Freepik / Magnific | In-browser editing before download | PNG, SVG | Free with attribution, or premium plan |
| FreeVector.com | Bundled web/communication icon sets | Vector packs (format varies by pack) | Varies by pack — check each listing |
Or Skip the Download: Build the RSS Badge in Pure CSS
If you just need the classic orange feed icon and don’t want to deal with licensing, image weight, or a broken hotlink six months from now, you can draw the whole thing in CSS. It’s three shapes: a rounded square background, a dot in the bottom-left corner, and two curved “sound wave” arcs radiating out from that dot — and all three are just border-radius tricks.
Step 1: The Markup
<div class="rss-badge">
<span class="rss-badge__wave rss-badge__wave--outer"></span>
<span class="rss-badge__wave rss-badge__wave--inner"></span>
<span class="rss-badge__dot"></span>
</div>Step 2: The Rounded Square Background
.rss-badge {
position: relative;
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
background: #f6821f;
border-radius: 10px;
overflow: hidden;
}Step 3: The Dot
.rss-badge__dot {
position: absolute;
left: 9px;
bottom: 9px;
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
background: #fff;
border-radius: 50%;
}Step 4: The Two Wave Arcs
This is the part that looks like magic but isn’t: give a square element border-radius: 50% to turn it into a full circle, then make the bottom and left borders transparent. What’s left visible is only the top-right quarter of that circle — which, positioned over the dot, reads as a curved sound wave.
.rss-badge__wave {
position: absolute;
left: 9px;
bottom: 9px;
border-radius: 50%;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #fff transparent transparent #fff;
/* rotate so the visible edge curves up and to the right, away from the dot */
transform-origin: bottom left;
}
.rss-badge__wave--inner {
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
border-width: 4px;
}
.rss-badge__wave--outer {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
border-width: 4px;
}The border-color shorthand above sets top and left to white and right/bottom to transparent, which is the reverse of what you’d expect — that’s intentional, since the arcs need to curve away from the bottom-left corner where the dot sits. If your arcs come out facing the wrong way, that’s the first thing to flip.
The Full Snippet
.rss-badge {
position: relative;
width: 48px;
height: 48px;
background: #f6821f;
border-radius: 10px;
overflow: hidden;
}
.rss-badge__dot {
position: absolute;
left: 9px;
bottom: 9px;
width: 8px;
height: 8px;
background: #fff;
border-radius: 50%;
}
.rss-badge__wave {
position: absolute;
left: 9px;
bottom: 9px;
border-radius: 50%;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #fff transparent transparent #fff;
}
.rss-badge__wave--inner {
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
border-width: 4px;
}
.rss-badge__wave--outer {
width: 30px;
height: 30px;
border-width: 4px;
}Why Bother With CSS Instead of Just Downloading a PNG?
- No HTTP request. It’s a few lines of CSS you already load, not an extra image file.
- Infinitely scalable and recolorable. Change one hex code to match a rebrand, or swap
width/heightfor a favicon-sized or hero-sized version, with no re-export. - No licensing to track. You wrote it, you own it.
- Easy to animate. Add a
transitionontransform: scale()for a hover pulse, which is awkward to do gracefully with a static image.
The tradeoff is fidelity: this CSS version gets close to the classic badge but won’t pixel-match the official FeedIcons.com artwork. If you need an exact, brand-consistent asset for print or a style guide, grab the real file from one of the sources above instead.
FAQ
Is RSS still relevant enough to bother with a feed badge in 2026?
Yes — podcast distribution still runs on RSS under the hood, and a growing number of readers use feed readers again as an alternative to algorithm-driven social feeds. A visible badge helps people who are specifically looking for it.
Do I need to credit the icon source?
It depends on the license of the specific file you download. Flaticon and Freepik/Magnific both offer free tiers that generally require attribution unless you’re on a paid plan — check the license terms shown on the icon’s own page before publishing.
Can I recolor the CSS version to match my brand?
Yes — change the background value on .rss-badge and the white values in .rss-badge__dot and .rss-badge__wave to any color you want. No re-export needed.
