An icon library cleanup, with a little help from Figma MCP

After merging icon libraries from different platforms, Landal's icon library was due for a cleanup. Nothing dramatic, just inconsistent naming, different formats, loose imports and icons without a clear place. Exactly the kind of small mess that can sit there happily until you need to find something again.

Start with an audit, not the rename button

Together with Figma MCP, I audited the library first. The agent inspected every component for names, dimensions, categories and potential duplicates, then turned the findings into an audit report directly in Figma. That gave the design team a shared starting point before anything changed.

What changed

The cleanup happened on a separate Figma branch. Import suffixes and trailing spaces were removed, icon names were brought to a consistent lowercase-kebab convention, and loose icons were given a home in the existing structure. We also standardised the library around two intentional sizes: 16px for inline and compact use, and 24px for the standard icon set.

The result was a cleaner library, eleven clearly organised sections, and an exact change report so the team could review what happened instead of discovering it later through a broken instance.

The interesting part was not the cleanup

The surprising part was how much further Figma MCP can go now that skills are available. This was not an AI guessing at a screenshot. It could inspect the actual file, propose a plan, apply changes on a branch and verify the result afterwards.

The automation saved time, obviously. But the bigger win was that it made the audit report and verification part of the work. Those are normally the bits that get skipped because the cleanup itself already took enough energy.

A small takeaway

For design systems, consistency work is rarely exciting enough to earn a big project. Tools like this make it smaller, more inspectable and easier to share. That is enough reason to tackle it before it becomes somebody else's mystery.