Telescope

The telescope icon represents exploration, discovery, and vision features in search and research applications. Featuring a telescope symbol, this exploratory indicator has become the standard icon for advanced search functionality, discovery tools, and exploration features across digital platforms.

In modern applications like GitHub's code exploration features, Product Hunt's discovery interfaces, or research platforms like Google Scholar for advanced search capabilities, you'll see this icon representing exploration and discovery tools. It appears in search interfaces for expanding search options, in analytics dashboards for data exploration features, or in educational platforms for research and discovery tools.

From a user experience perspective, the telescope symbol communicates more than just 'search' - it specifically indicates advanced discovery, exploratory browsing, and the investigative capabilities that enable users to find insights beyond basic search results.

Telescope 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 TelescopeIcon to components/icons/akar-icons-telescope.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 TelescopeIcon 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 Telescope 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.

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

Yes. TelescopeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <TelescopeIcon 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 Telescope. 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 navigation, search, research, vision, find and explore. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Telescope 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 Telescope's siblings in it.