Dryad

The Dryad icon represents the nonprofit data repository specifically designed for publishing and preserving research datasets underlying scientific publications, making data freely available for reuse and validation. This symbol identifies the curated repository where researchers deposit datasets to comply with journal data sharing policies and enable reproducible research across scientific disciplines.

In scientific publishing workflows, researchers submit datasets to Dryad as a condition of publication in journals like Evolution and Molecular Ecology which require data availability. Data curators at Dryad review submissions to ensure datasets are properly documented and formatted, while researchers cite Dryad DOIs in publications to direct readers to the underlying data supporting their findings and enable independent verification.

From an open science perspective, this icon signifies more than just data storage - it represents the specialized infrastructure for curated scientific data publication, ensures long-term preservation of research data beyond individual researcher or institutional capacity, and provides the trusted platform where journals direct authors to fulfill data sharing mandates. This distinction helps users recognize Dryad as the gold standard for scientific data publication.

Dryad is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 512 × 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 DryadIcon to components/icons/academicons-dryad.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 DryadIcon 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 Dryad 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 512 × 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="Dryad", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. DryadIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <DryadIcon 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 repository, scientific and preservation. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Dryad in another set.