Overleaf

The Overleaf icon represents the widely-used collaborative LaTeX editor enabling real-time document editing, compilation, and version control for academic writing. This symbol identifies the web-based platform that has become the dominant solution for collaborative scientific writing, providing thousands of journal templates, seamless Git integration, and real-time preview compilation. Overleaf eliminates traditional LaTeX installation complexity while enabling multi-author collaboration essential for academic publishing.

In academic writing workflows, research teams collaborate on manuscripts through Overleaf's real-time editing features similar to Google Docs but with full LaTeX power. PhD students use Overleaf templates for dissertation formatting matching institutional requirements, while conference authors leverage venue-specific templates ensuring submission guideline compliance. The platform's integration with journal submission systems and reference managers has made it essential infrastructure for STEM publishing where LaTeX dominates formatting standards.

From a scholarly communication perspective, this icon signifies more than just a text editor - it represents democratized access to professional typesetting previously requiring technical expertise, enables seamless collaboration across institutions without software version conflicts, and provides cloud-based workflows supporting modern distributed research teams. This distinction helps users recognize Overleaf as transformative infrastructure for accessible academic publishing.

Overleaf is one of 158 icons in Academicons, made by James Walsh and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 384 × 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 OverleafIcon to components/icons/academicons-overleaf.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 OverleafIcon 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 Overleaf 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 384 × 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="Overleaf", so screen readers say what it does.

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

2 other libraries draw an icon called Overleaf. 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 writing, collaboration, editor and academic. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Overleaf in another set.