Github

This icon represents GitHub, the world's leading platform for version control and collaborative software development. The iconic Octocat logo has become synonymous with open-source development, code collaboration, and the global developer community.

In developer portfolios and authentication interfaces, you'll see this icon enabling GitHub login and linking to code repositories. It appears in development tools like VS Code and project documentation, facilitating code sharing, pull requests, and collaborative development workflows for millions of developers worldwide.

From a development perspective, the GitHub icon communicates more than just code hosting - it specifically indicates professional development practices, open-source contribution, and participation in the global coding community. This recognition helps recruiters identify active developers and assess technical contributions.

Github is one of 45 icons in Brandico, made by Fontello and released under CC BY SA. It is drawn on a 1227.825 × 1000 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 GithubIcon to components/icons/brandico-github.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 GithubIcon 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 Github icon, or any of 45 Brandico 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 1227.825 × 1000 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

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

Yes. GithubIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GithubIcon 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 asks you to credit the author (Fontello), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY SA asks you to credit Fontello, 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.

8 other libraries draw an icon called Github. 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 development, code, open-source, Git, version-control and repository. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Github in another set.