Glasses

The glasses icon represents reading modes, accessibility features, and vision-related settings in content-focused applications. Featuring a simple eyeglasses design, this symbol has become the standard indicator for reader modes, text visibility controls, and accessibility options that enhance content readability across digital platforms.

In modern applications like Safari's Reader View, reading mode toggles in content platforms like Medium and Pocket, or accessibility settings in apps like Kindle where users adjust text display for comfortable reading, you'll see this icon enabling enhanced reading experiences. It appears in browser extensions for distraction-free reading, in news apps when activating focus modes, or in content management systems like WordPress for preview and reading layout options.

From a user experience perspective, the glasses symbol communicates more than just 'vision' - it specifically indicates readability enhancement, focus mode activation, and the transformation of busy layouts into clean, readable formats optimized for extended reading sessions. This visual metaphor helps users understand they're entering a simplified, reader-friendly view.

Glasses 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 GlassesIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-glasses.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 GlassesIcon 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 Glasses 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.

Glasses 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="Glasses", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GlassesIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GlassesIcon 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 Glasses. 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 accessibility, reading, view, vision, mode and reader. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Glasses 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 Glasses's siblings in it.