Back Arrow

The back-arrow icon represents a backward or previous direction, used for navigation in digital interfaces. This icon is commonly used in software, apps, and websites to indicate going back or returning to a previous page or state.

In digital communication, this icon can be used in various contexts, such as web browsers, file explorers, or mobile apps, to provide users with a clear way to navigate backward.

From a UX perspective, the back-arrow icon communicates a clear and universal action. It helps users understand that clicking on the icon will take them back to a previous state, making interfaces more intuitive and user-friendly.

Back Arrow is one of 1,834 icons in Emoji One (Colored), made by Emoji One and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 64 × 64 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 BackArrowIcon to components/icons/emojione-back-arrow.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 BackArrowIcon 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 Back Arrow icon, or any of 1,834 Emoji One (Colored) 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 64 × 64 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="Back Arrow", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BackArrowIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BackArrowIcon 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 (Emoji One) 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 Emoji One, 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.

2 other libraries draw an icon called Back Arrow. 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 navigation, action, icon and react. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Back Arrow in another set.

Emoji One (Colored) draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Back Arrow's siblings in it.