Hourglass

The hourglass icon represents a symbol of time passing or a timer. It visually depicts two bulbs connected by a narrow neck, with sand flowing from one bulb to the other. This symbol has been used for centuries to measure time and is often associated with patience, waiting, or the passage of time. The hourglass originated from ancient devices used to measure time, where sand flowed from one container to another, marking the passage of time.

In real-world applications, the hourglass icon is commonly used in software and digital platforms to indicate a delay, waiting period, or a timer. For example, it can be found in video games to represent a cooldown period, in messaging apps to indicate a typing delay, or in workflow management tools like Trello or Asana to show a task's duration.

From a UX perspective, the hourglass icon communicates a sense of waiting or anticipation. It helps users understand that a process is in progress or that they need to wait for a certain amount of time before proceeding. This icon can also be used to provide feedback to users about the status of a task or process.

Hourglass is one of 1,609 icons in BoxIcons, made by Atisa and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 HourglassIcon to components/icons/bx-hourglass.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 HourglassIcon 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 Hourglass icon, or any of 1,609 BoxIcons 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.

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

Yes. HourglassIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <HourglassIcon 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 credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Atisa) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by Atisa, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Hourglass. 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 schedule, timer, clock, wait and delay. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Hourglass in another set.