Thinking

The thinking icon represents the process of thinking or having an idea. The visual design features a stylized head with a thought bubble, indicating cognitive activity. This symbol originates from common visual metaphors used to represent thought and creativity.

In real-world applications, this icon appears in educational software, mind mapping tools, and various productivity applications, such as Miro, Notion, or Trello. Users often see this icon when brainstorming ideas or reflecting on information.

The thinking icon communicates to users that they are in a state of cognitive activity. It helps users understand that they need to think critically or creatively about a problem. For example, a student might see this icon in an educational app, indicating that they need to engage with the material thoughtfully.

Thinking is one of 538 icons in Codicons, made by Microsoft Corporation and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 16 × 16 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 ThinkingIcon to components/icons/codicon-thinking.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 ThinkingIcon 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 Thinking icon, or any of 538 Codicons 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 16 × 16 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="Thinking", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ThinkingIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ThinkingIcon 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 (Microsoft Corporation) 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 Microsoft Corporation, 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.

1 other library draws an icon called Thinking. 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 idea, thinking and mind. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Thinking in another set.