Camera Action

The camera-action icon represents a camera in action or capturing a moment, indicating a process for taking photos or recording videos. The visual design typically features a symbol with a camera lens or shutter, suggesting a tool for capturing visual media in real-time. This symbol likely originates from photography or videography software, where cameras are used to capture dynamic moments or actions.

In real-world applications, this icon might appear in software like action cameras, sports recording devices, or live streaming platforms. For instance, a live streaming platform might use this icon to indicate a camera or recording in action.

From a UX perspective, the camera-action icon communicates a sense of dynamic capture or real-time recording. It helps users quickly understand that the camera is actively capturing media.

Camera Action is one of 2,547 icons in Carbon, made by IBM and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 32 × 32 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 CameraActionIcon to components/icons/carbon-camera-action.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 CameraActionIcon 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 Camera Action icon, or any of 2,547 Carbon 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 32 × 32 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="Camera Action", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CameraActionIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CameraActionIcon 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. Apache 2.0 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: Apache 2.0 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 Carbon, IBM and the license.

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

Its tags are action, video, image, camera, recording and photo. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Camera Action in another set.

Carbon draws many icons in several styles: Filled next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Camera Action's siblings in it.