Polar Icons Database
We value good science communication and strive to make beautiful presentations, posters, and infographics. However, we often struggle to find freely-available icons of polar flora and fauna, scientific equipment, and other icons related to our work.
In 2020, APECS-Canada created this database to help polar early-career researchers find and share free design elements or icons. Contact us at APECS Canada if you would like to contribute an icon, we are always looking to expand our selection.
Scroll through this gallery to browse icons in the database.
Use an icon
Icons are available in SVG or PNG format and are licensed under a Creative Commons license. Please credit the creator and "APECS Canada Polar Icons" in your acknowledgements.
Where applicable, icons are named using scientific species names. Species names are followed by the first initial and last name of the icon’s creator (e.g., Pusa_hispida_ALangwieder.png).
To download all icons in database (SVG and PNG), click button.
To browse icons by category (PNG only), click on icons below.
Contribute an icon
Marine Mammals
Human
Fish
Abiotic
Birds
Terrestrial Mammals
Thank you to all Icon Creators!
Xavier Dallaire, Xavier Giroux-Bougard, Rebecca Hennigs, Alexandra Langwieder, Gwyneth MacMillan and Jessica Norris.
APECS Canada now has an open source database of icons for you to use on your posters, presentations, or infographics.
Check them out!