Paper Airplane

The paper-airplane icon represents message sending, email submission, and content dispatch actions in communication and messaging applications. Featuring a paper airplane or plane symbol, this icon is commonly used to indicate send actions, message submission, email dispatch, and content delivery triggers in chat apps, email clients, and messaging platforms.

In modern applications like Telegram's message send button, email compose windows in Gmail, or messaging interfaces in Slack and Discord, you'll see this paper airplane icon representing message dispatch actions. It appears in chat input areas when sending messages, in email composers when submitting emails, or in form interfaces when triggering content submission and delivery actions.

From a user interaction perspective, the paper airplane symbol communicates more than just 'send action' - it specifically indicates the moment of message dispatch, the finality of content submission, and the visual metaphor of launching communication toward recipients. This action clarity helps users confidently trigger message sending with clear understanding of the irreversible nature of the action.

Paper Airplane 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 PaperAirplaneIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-paper-airplane.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 PaperAirplaneIcon 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 Paper Airplane 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.

Paper Airplane 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="Paper Airplane", so screen readers say what it does.

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

6 other libraries draw an icon called Paper Airplane. 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 message, email, send, airplane, plane and submit. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Paper Airplane 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 Paper Airplane's siblings in it.