Chevron Down Small

The chevron-down-small icon represents compact dropdown controls, small expansion indicators, and condensed navigation elements in space-efficient interfaces. Featuring a smaller, more compact downward-pointing chevron, this icon is commonly used to indicate dropdown menus in tight spaces, expansion controls in condensed layouts, and navigation elements in compact UI designs where space constraints require smaller visual indicators.

In modern applications like compact dropdown selects in form-heavy interfaces, accordion controls in dense information displays like dashboards, expandable menu items in mobile navigation, or inline expansion indicators in data tables, you'll see this smaller chevron providing dropdown and expansion affordance without consuming excessive space. It appears in compact select components where full-size chevrons would feel oversized, in table row expansion controls, or in condensed navigation menus where visual hierarchy demands subtler directional indicators.

From a spatial efficiency perspective, the small chevron communicates more than just 'expand downward' - it specifically indicates subtle interactivity, the careful balance between affordance and visual weight in dense interfaces, and the responsive design consideration that prioritizes content over chrome. This size clarity helps maintain clean, uncluttered interfaces while preserving essential interactive affordances.

Chevron Down Small 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 ChevronDownSmallIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-chevron-down-small.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 ChevronDownSmallIcon 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 Chevron Down Small 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.

Chevron Down Small 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="Chevron Down Small", so screen readers say what it does.

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

3 other libraries draw an icon called Chevron Down Small. 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 compact, expand, dropdown, small, chevron and down. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Chevron Down Small 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 Chevron Down Small's siblings in it.