Closed Book

The closed-book icon represents a book with its cover closed, symbolizing a resource or knowledge that is not currently being accessed. It is often used in educational or literary contexts to convey a sense of study or research. The icon's design, featuring a simple yet distinctive shape, makes it easily recognizable.

In real-world applications, the closed-book icon appears in various software and platforms related to education, such as e-learning websites, digital libraries, and note-taking apps. For instance, it might be used to represent a 'closed' or 'unavailable' resource, or to indicate that a user needs to 'open' or access a particular book or document.

From a UX perspective, the closed-book icon communicates a sense of inaccessibility or reserve, implying that the resource or knowledge it represents is not currently available or being utilized. This can help users understand the functionality or status of a particular feature or element in an interface.

Closed Book 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 ClosedBookIcon to components/icons/emojione-v1-closed-book.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 ClosedBookIcon 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 Closed Book 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="Closed Book", so screen readers say what it does.

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

3 other libraries draw an icon called Closed Book. 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 education, learning, knowledge, literature, resource and study. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Closed Book in another set.