Hal

The HAL icon represents Hyper Articles en Ligne, the French national open access repository managed by CNRS for depositing and disseminating scientific research outputs. This symbol identifies France's centralized platform where researchers archive publications, theses, and conference papers, making French research freely accessible while meeting national open access mandates.

In French research ecosystems, scientists at institutions like Sorbonne University and INRIA deposit papers in HAL to comply with national open access requirements and institutional policies. Research administrators use HAL to track institutional publication outputs, while French funding agencies including ANR require HAL deposition for grant-funded research to ensure public access to publicly-funded findings.

From a national research infrastructure perspective, this icon signifies more than just a repository - it represents France's centralized approach to open access ensuring comprehensive coverage of national research output, enables systematic tracking of French research productivity across institutions, and provides the authoritative platform for French research assessment and science policy analysis. This distinction helps users recognize HAL as essential infrastructure for French research communication.

Hal 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 HalIcon to components/icons/academicons-hal.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 HalIcon 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 Hal 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="Hal", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. HalIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <HalIcon 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.

1 other library draws an icon called Hal. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are archive, research, repository, french and france. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Hal in another set.