# Installation

Material-UI is available as an [npm package](https://www.npmjs.org/package/material-ui).

## npm

To install and save in your `package.json` dependencies, run:

```
npm install -S material-ui@next
```

## Roboto Font

Material-UI was designed with the [Roboto](http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto)
font in mind. So be sure to follow [those instructions](/style/typography#general).

## Icon Font

In order to use the font `Icon` component, or to use icon names (ligatures) directly in components
that support them, you must first the add the [Material icons](https://material.io/icons/) font.
Here are [some instructions](http://google.github.io/material-design-icons/#icon-font-for-the-web)
on how to do so.

## SVG Icons

In order to use prebuilt SVG Material icons, such as those found in the [component demos](/component-demos)
you must first install the [material-ui-icons](https://www.npmjs.org/package/material-ui-icons) package:

```
npm install -S material-ui-icons
```

This package replaces the `svg-icons` previously included with Material-UI.