Chevron Left Small

The chevron-left-small icon represents compact back navigation, small leftward controls, and condensed previous actions in space-efficient interfaces. Featuring a smaller, more compact leftward-pointing chevron, this icon is commonly used to indicate back navigation in tight spaces, previous item controls in compact carousels, and leftward movement indicators in dense UI designs where space constraints require smaller visual navigation elements.

In modern applications like compact back buttons in mobile navigation headers, previous item controls in condensed image galleries, breadcrumb navigation in space-limited layouts, or inline back actions in data tables and forms, you'll see this smaller chevron providing leftward navigation affordance without consuming excessive space. It appears in mobile app headers where full-size back arrows would dominate, in carousel controls for compact product browsers, or in breadcrumb trails where subtle navigation indicators maintain visual hierarchy.

From a navigational efficiency perspective, the small left chevron communicates more than just 'go back' - it specifically indicates subtle navigation control, the careful balance between affordance and visual restraint in compact interfaces, and the mobile-first design consideration that prioritizes content over navigation chrome. This size clarity helps maintain clean, focused interfaces while preserving essential back navigation capabilities.

Chevron Left 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 ChevronLeftSmallIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-chevron-left-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 ChevronLeftSmallIcon 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 Left 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 Left 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 Left Small", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ChevronLeftSmallIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ChevronLeftSmallIcon 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 Left 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, back, small, left, previous and chevron. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Chevron Left 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 Left Small's siblings in it.