Snake

The snake icon represents a slithering reptile, often used to convey danger, fear, or caution in digital communication. This emoji features a snake with a menacing expression, which adds to its recognizable and intimidating appearance. The snake emoji is commonly used in various contexts, including social media posts, text messages, and comments, to express a sense of danger or warning.

The snake icon appears in software and platforms like social media, messaging apps, and gaming communities. For example, it can be used on Twitter to warn about a potential scam, on WhatsApp to express concern about a situation, or on Twitch to engage with streamers and their audience. The widespread adoption of this emoji across different platforms highlights its effectiveness in digital communication.

From a UX perspective, the snake icon communicates a sense of danger or caution beyond its literal meaning. When users see this icon, they might infer that the content or message is related to something hazardous or that it's intended to convey a sense of warning. This icon helps users quickly understand the tone of a message, which can be particularly useful in digital communication where tone can be easily misinterpreted.

Snake 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 SnakeIcon to components/icons/emojione-v1-snake.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 SnakeIcon 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 Snake 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="Snake", so screen readers say what it does.

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

6 other libraries draw an icon called Snake. 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 warning, animal, danger, reptile and fear. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Snake in another set.