Language

The carbon language icon represents a language, often used to represent translation, internationalization, or localization. The visual design of the icon features a stylized shape with a combination of geometric elements. This symbol originates from the concept of language and communication, and its meaning has been extended to digital contexts, representing the concept of multilingual support and cultural adaptation.

In real-world applications, the language icon appears in various software and platforms related to translation, localization, and internationalization, such as translation software like Google Translate, localization tools like Transifex, and multilingual platforms like Wikipedia.

From a UX perspective, the language icon communicates the idea of language support and cultural adaptation. It helps users understand that a particular feature or function is related to translation, localization, or internationalization, and it guides them to take necessary actions to interact with the system in their preferred language.

Language 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 LanguageIcon to components/icons/carbon-language.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 LanguageIcon 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 Language 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="Language", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. LanguageIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <LanguageIcon 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.

8 other libraries draw an icon called Language. 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 language, translation and internationalization. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Language 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 Language's siblings in it.