Arrow Up Down

The arrow-up-down icon represents vertical sorting, bidirectional vertical movement, and reordering operations in data tables and list interfaces. Featuring arrows pointing both up and down, this symbol has become the universal control for column sorting, vertical reordering, and bidirectional vertical transfers in digital applications.

In modern applications like data tables or spreadsheet interfaces, you'll see this icon enabling column sort operations and vertical data reordering. It appears in admin dashboards like Retool when sorting table columns, or in e-commerce platforms like Shopify when reordering product lists and enabling vertical data organization controls.

From a user experience perspective, the vertical bidirectional arrows communicate more than just 'move vertically' - they specifically indicate sortable columns, reorderable lists, and the vertical transfer patterns needed for data organization and priority management. This visual clarity helps users understand they can sort or reorder content vertically.

Arrow Up Down 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 ArrowUpDownIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-arrow-up-down.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 ArrowUpDownIcon 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 Arrow Up Down icon, or any of 458 Akar Icons 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 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 Up Down 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 Up Down", so screen readers say what it does.

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

7 other libraries draw an icon called Arrow Up Down. 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 sort, sorting, vertical, reorder, arrows and bidirectional. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Arrow Up Down 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 Up Down's siblings in it.