Arrow Left
The arrow-left icon represents leftward navigation and directional movement in application interfaces.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ArrowLeftIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<path fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="2" d="m11 5l-7 7l7 7m-7-7h16"/>
</svg>
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What the Arrow Left icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The arrow-left icon represents leftward navigation and directional movement in application interfaces. Featuring a simple leftward-pointing arrow, this symbol serves as a fundamental navigation control for moving left, returning to previous content, and indicating backward or westward direction in digital applications.
In modern applications like image galleries or carousel components, you'll see this icon enabling leftward navigation through content sequences. It appears in slideshow interfaces like Google Slides when moving to previous slides, or in pagination systems when navigating to earlier pages and content sections.
From a user experience perspective, the leftward arrow communicates more than just 'move left' - it specifically indicates sequential backward movement, previous item navigation, and the directional flow needed for browsing content in reverse order. This visual clarity helps users understand they're moving backward through sequential content.
Arrow Left is one of 458 icons in Akar Icons, made by Arturo Wibawa and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2 stroke.
Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds ArrowLeftIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-arrow-left.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 ArrowLeftIcon 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.
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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 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.
Arrow Left is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 2. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.
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="Arrow Left", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ArrowLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ArrowLeftIcon 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. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.
No visible credit is required: MIT 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 Akar Icons, Arturo Wibawa and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
8 other libraries draw an icon called Arrow Left. 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 navigation, direction, arrow, left, previous and backward. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Arrow Left in another set.
Akar Icons draws many icons in several styles: Fill next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Arrow Left's siblings in it.
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