MCP Logo and Icon: Official Downloads, SVG Sources, and Usage Guide (2026)

If you are building anything in the AI tooling space in 2026, sooner or later you need the MCP logo: a directory listing, an integrations page, a pitch deck, a "works with MCP" badge in your README. This guide collects every legitimate place to download the Model Context Protocol mark, explains the format trade-offs, and covers the unwritten usage rules the ecosystem actually follows.

The Official MCP Logo

The Model Context Protocol was introduced by Anthropic in November 2024 as an open standard for connecting AI applications to external systems, and everything about the project is deliberately open: the spec, the SDKs, the reference servers, and the brand mark itself. The official identity appears on modelcontextprotocol.io and across the modelcontextprotocol GitHub organization.

The mark itself is a minimal monochrome geometric design built from intersecting angled strokes, an abstract connector shape that suggests pathways meeting, which is a fitting visual for a protocol whose whole job is connecting models to tools. Because it ships as single-color vector art, it scales from a 16px favicon to a conference banner without variants, and it inverts cleanly between dark and light backgrounds.

New to the protocol itself? Start with our explainer on what the Model Context Protocol is and the companion piece on understanding MCP servers.

Where to Download the MCP Logo and Icon

Official and Near-Official Sources

• Wikimedia Commons: Model_Context_Protocol_logo.svg is the cleanest reference vector of the official mark, with PNG renders at multiple resolutions. When you need the canonical shape with provenance, start here.
• modelcontextprotocol GitHub organization: the project's own repositories and documentation site carry the mark as used by the maintainers, useful for checking current official usage.

Icon Libraries with MCP Marks

• LobeHub Icons (lobehub.com/icons/mcp): the most convenient download page. SVG and PNG, both mono and color treatments, sized variants, one click. LobeHub maintains the largest open AI/LLM brand icon collection, which is exactly why it dominates the logo-search rankings.
• lobe-icons on GitHub: the same collection as an open-source package. If you write React, import { Mcp } from '@lobehub/icons' beats managing SVG files by hand.
• Boxicons: ships an MCP icon in SVG, PNG, JSX, React, Svelte, and Vue formats, handy when you are already on Boxicons for the rest of your UI.
• Devicons and Iconstack aggregators: quick copy-paste SVG variants, including generic "mcp-server" glyphs for representing server entries in a UI rather than the brand itself.

Download Source Comparison

SVG vs PNG vs React Components

• SVG is the right default: infinitely scalable, tiny file size for a mark this simple, recolorable with CSS (fill: currentColor makes dark/light theming free).
• PNG only when the target demands raster: email clients, some social cards, legacy CMS uploads. Export at 2x your display size minimum.
• React/Vue/Svelte components when the icon is part of an app UI. Tree-shakeable imports from lobe-icons keep your bundle clean and your icons consistent with the other 100+ AI brands you will inevitably display next to MCP.

Usage Guidelines: What You Can and Cannot Do

MCP is an open-source project rather than a trademark-enforcement machine, but the ecosystem has settled on clear norms:

• Fine: showing the mark next to MCP-compatible tools in a directory, an integrations grid, a "works with MCP" badge in a README, editorial use in blog posts and talks.
• Fine: monochrome recoloring to match a dark or light theme, since the mark is published as single-color art.
• Not fine: using the MCP mark as your product's own logo, remixing it into a derivative brand, or presenting your tool as official or endorsed by the MCP project or Anthropic.
• Check the set's license: the mark reaches most people through open icon sets (lobe-icons, Boxicons), each with its own permissive license terms for the packaging, attribution requirements occasionally apply.

Dark Mode and Light Mode Variants

Because the official mark is monochrome, there are no separate dark/light brand files to hunt down. The working pattern in 2026 codebases:

<svg class="mcp-icon" fill="currentColor" ...> / CSS / .mcp-icon { color: #0a0a0a; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {   .mcp-icon { color: #fafafa; } }

One vector file, themed by CSS. This is also how the major MCP clients and directories render the mark across themes.

Related AI Brand Icons You Will Probably Need

Nobody downloads the MCP icon alone. Integration pages almost always need the surrounding cast, and the same LobeHub icon set covers all of them: Claude and Anthropic, OpenAI and ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini, plus the protocol-adjacent marks for individual servers. If you are assembling a tools page, grab the full set once from lobe-icons instead of mixing sources, mismatched stroke weights across icon sources is the most common visual bug on integration grids.

For the server entries themselves, link against live listings rather than static logos: our directory pages for the GitHub MCP server, Slack MCP server, and Notion MCP server stay current as those projects ship releases.

Using the MCP Icon in a Real Project

A typical integrations-page implementation in a Next.js app:

npm install @lobehub/icons

// IntegrationsGrid.tsx import { Mcp, Claude, OpenAI } from '@lobehub/icons';
export function IntegrationsGrid() {   return (     <div className="grid grid-cols-3 gap-6">       <Mcp size={32} />       <Claude.Color size={32} />       <OpenAI size={32} />     </div>   ); }

If you are choosing which directory or registry to feature alongside the mark, our roundup of the best MCP directories compares the options, and the broader complete guide to MCP servers covers everything from installation to security.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated: June 11, 2026 · Skiln tracks the MCP ecosystem daily across 13 source registries.