Whitespace

The whitespace icon represents empty or blank space, symbolizing separation, padding, or margins in digital interfaces. The visual design often features a stylized representation of space or a blank area, conveying a sense of emptiness or separation. This icon originates from typography and graphic design principles.

In digital platforms, the whitespace icon is commonly used in design tools, such as Figma or Sketch, to represent spacing, padding, or margins. For example, CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS use whitespace icons to demonstrate spacing utilities.

From a UX perspective, the whitespace icon effectively communicates the importance of empty space in digital interfaces, helping users understand layout, hierarchy, and visual flow. The icon's simple design makes it easy to understand and use across different interfaces.

Whitespace 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 WhitespaceIcon to components/icons/codicon-whitespace.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 WhitespaceIcon 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 Whitespace 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="Whitespace", so screen readers say what it does.

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

Its tags are space, empty and blank. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Whitespace in another set.