Osf

The Open Science Framework (OSF) icon represents the comprehensive research workflow platform enabling project management, collaboration, data storage, and preregistration for transparent research practices. This symbol identifies the free, open-source infrastructure operated by the Center for Open Science that integrates storage, version control, and collaboration tools supporting the entire research lifecycle from study design through publication and archiving.

In open science workflows, psychology researchers preregister study hypotheses on OSF before data collection to prevent questionable research practices. Collaborative teams use OSF projects for file sharing and version control across institutions, while researchers deposit preprints on OSF Preprints for rapid dissemination before peer review. The platform's integration with GitHub, Dropbox, and other tools alongside built-in DOI minting has made it central infrastructure for transparent research documentation across social sciences.

From a research transparency perspective, this icon signifies more than just file storage - it represents comprehensive solutions for the replication crisis, enables timestamped documentation of research decisions preventing HARKing, and provides integrated workflows supporting all open science practices. This distinction helps users recognize OSF as foundational infrastructure for reproducible research ecosystems rather than simple cloud storage.

Osf 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 OsfIcon to components/icons/academicons-osf.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 OsfIcon 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 Osf 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="Osf", so screen readers say what it does.

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