Academia Square

This icon presents the Academia.edu symbol in a square format, offering a contained design ideal for uniform icon grids and social media profile badges in academic contexts. The squared border creates visual consistency when displayed alongside other social platform icons in researcher profiles and institutional websites.

In modern academic websites like university faculty pages or research lab directories, you'll see this squared variant maintaining visual harmony with other social icons like LinkedIn, ORCID, and Google Scholar. Platforms like departmental websites use the square format to create cohesive researcher contact sections, while academic CVs often feature this icon in standardized social profile grids.

From a design systems perspective, the square container communicates more than just aesthetic uniformity - it specifically signals professional icon standardization, enables predictable spacing in compact layouts, and reinforces platform recognition through consistent geometric framing. This distinction helps users quickly scan and identify academic networking options in crowded interface elements.

Academia Square is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 448 × 512 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds AcademiaSquareIcon to components/icons/academicons-academia-square.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed AcademiaSquareIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Academia Square icon, or any of 158 Academicons icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it: a class like text-primary recolors it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 448 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It follows the text color, so with text-foreground (or any theme token) it changes with your light and dark themes. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Academia Square", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. AcademiaSquareIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <AcademiaSquareIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Academicons, James Walsh and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

Its tags are social, profile, square, badge, academic and branding. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Academia Square in another set.