Sphinx

The sphinx icon represents the mythological creature from ancient Egyptian culture, symbolizing mystery and wisdom. The visual design features a stylized sphinx head, conveying a sense of ancient history and cultural significance. This symbol originates from Egyptian mythology.

In real-world applications, this icon appears in historical and cultural contexts, such as museums, educational institutions, and cultural organizations. For example, it can be used in museum exhibits, educational materials, and cultural events.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates a sense of authority and tradition, helping users understand that they are accessing a trusted source of information or cultural significance. It can be used to guide users through interactive exhibits or to highlight important cultural information.

Sphinx is one of 14,082 icons in Arcticons, made by Donnnno and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds SphinxIcon to components/icons/arcticons-sphinx.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 SphinxIcon 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 Sphinx icon, or any of 14,082 Arcticons 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 48 × 48 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.

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

Yes. SphinxIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <SphinxIcon 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, with conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Donnnno), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit Donnnno, and icons you change must be shared under the same license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Sphinx. 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 culture, history, mythology, mystery, ancient and egyptian. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Sphinx in another set.