Markdown

The markdown icon represents Markdown, a lightweight markup language used for formatting text documents. Markdown is widely used for writing documentation, readme files, and other types of text content. Markdown's significance lies in its simplicity, readability, and ease of use, making it a popular choice among developers, writers, and content creators.

Markdown is commonly used in documentation, readme files, and text content creation. Specific platforms and tools that use Markdown include GitHub, Bitbucket, and various documentation platforms.

From a UX perspective, the markdown icon communicates a sense of simplicity, readability, and ease of use. It helps users understand that an application or website uses Markdown for its text formatting needs, which can influence user expectations about the application's documentation, content quality, and overall user experience.

Markdown is one of 659 icons in Devicon Original, made by konpa and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 128 × 128 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 MarkdownIcon to components/icons/devicon-original-markdown.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 MarkdownIcon 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 Markdown icon, or any of 659 Devicon Original icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 128 × 128 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Markdown", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. MarkdownIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MarkdownIcon 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. MIT 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: MIT 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 Devicon Original, konpa 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 Markdown. 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 documentation, content creation, text formatting and markup language. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Markdown in another set.