Back Arrow

The back-arrow icon represents a directional symbol used for navigation, typically indicating a 'back' or 'previous' action. It is commonly used in digital interfaces to help users navigate through menus, pages, or sections.

In software and digital platforms, the back-arrow icon appears in various applications, including web browsers, file explorers, and mobile apps. For example, a web browser might use this icon to allow users to navigate back to a previous webpage.

From a UX perspective, the back-arrow icon communicates reversal or return. It helps users understand that they can navigate back to a previous state or screen.

Back Arrow is one of 1,262 icons in Emoji One (v1), made by Emoji One and released under CC BY-SA 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-v1-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 1,262 Emoji One (v1) 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 conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Emoji One), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit Emoji One, and icons you change must be shared under the same license.

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 UI, navigation, direction, arrow, back and previous. 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.