Back Arrow

The back-arrow icon represents a navigation element used to move backward or return to a previous state. It is part of the Emoji One library, a collection of monotone emojis. This icon is used to represent concepts related to navigation, direction, or movement.

In real-world applications, the back-arrow icon is often used in software development, web design, and digital product development to represent navigation or to indicate a call to action. For example, it may be used on a website to provide a clear and prominent navigation element or on a software application to represent a back button.

From a UX perspective, the back-arrow icon communicates a clear and concise message about the navigation or direction. It can help users quickly identify the relevance of the element to navigation or movement.

Back Arrow is one of 1,403 icons in Emoji One (Monotone), 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-monotone-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 1,403 Emoji One (Monotone) 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 64 × 64 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="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.

1 other library draws 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, icon, direction, movement, back and ui element. 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.