Add support for SVGs for product icons #266685
Description
Allowing the use of SVG files for product icons could unlock more ways to customise the VS Code interface. For example, users could use duotone icons (single colour, different opacities) and have better details. Icons could also be easier to manage in design tools like Figma. However, iconsfonts are being superseded to manage iconography in 2025. They are hard to maintain, and the PUA may have missing icons or replaced them with OSS ones.
A new and better way could be using SVG sprites with symbols. So, in addition to icon fonts, we could set the path to the sag sprite, and for icons we could just set the symbols id to render: read more https://nucleoapp.com/blog/post/how-to-add-and-manage-icons-in-web-projects-using-svg-symbols