Chevron Left
The chevron-left icon represents backward navigation, previous actions, and leftward movement in user interfaces.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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Chevron Left in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ChevronLeftIcon = (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="m15 4l-8 8l8 8"/>
</svg>
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What the Chevron Left icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The chevron-left icon represents backward navigation, previous actions, and leftward movement in user interfaces. Featuring a V-shaped arrow pointing left, this icon has become the universal indicator for going back, returning to previous screens, and navigating to parent pages across digital platforms.
In modern applications like mobile app navigation or carousel controls in e-commerce sites like Shopify, you'll see this icon representing back buttons and previous item navigation. It appears in breadcrumb navigation when returning to parent pages, or in media players like Spotify when navigating to previous tracks and reversing through content sequences.
From a navigation flow perspective, the leftward chevron communicates more than just 'go left' - it specifically indicates navigation reversal, hierarchical ascent, and the undoing of forward progress through interface flows. This visual distinction helps users understand they're returning to previous states rather than moving to adjacent content.
Chevron 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 ChevronLeftIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-chevron-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 ChevronLeftIcon 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.
Chevron 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="Chevron Left", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ChevronLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ChevronLeftIcon 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 Chevron 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 arrow, back, left, previous, chevron and backward. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Chevron 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 Chevron Left's siblings in it.
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