Open Materials

The open materials icon represents the practice of sharing research protocols, instruments, reagents, and other materials necessary for reproducing studies, extending open science principles beyond publications and data. This symbol identifies transparent research practices where complete methodological details and physical resources are made available. The icon signals compliance with journal and funder requirements for comprehensive research transparency.

In psychology and social science research, scientists share experimental stimuli, survey instruments, and analysis scripts on OSF marked with open materials badges. Biomedical researchers deposit detailed protocols on protocols.io for exact replication of experimental procedures, while materials scientists share synthesis conditions and reagent specifications. Journal editors award open materials badges recognizing authors who provide sufficient detail for independent reproduction of results.

From a research reproducibility perspective, this icon signifies more than just transparency - it represents commitments to methodological rigor, enables independent verification of procedures, and addresses replication crises across disciplines by ensuring complete procedural documentation. This distinction helps users recognize open materials as essential infrastructure for reproducible research beyond just data and code sharing.

Open Materials 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 OpenMaterialsIcon to components/icons/academicons-open-materials.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 OpenMaterialsIcon 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 Open Materials 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="Open Materials", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. OpenMaterialsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <OpenMaterialsIcon 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 research, transparency and materials. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Open Materials in another set.