Pencil

The pencil icon represents a writing or drawing tool, commonly used for editing and creating content. It originates from traditional writing instruments and has been adopted in digital contexts to symbolize creativity and modification. The pencil is a universal symbol for making changes or adding new ideas.

In digital applications, the pencil icon is often used in software like Adobe Photoshop, where it's used for drawing and editing images, or in text editors like Microsoft Word, where it symbolizes the ability to edit text.

From a UX perspective, the pencil icon communicates the ability to make changes or add new content. It's often used in contexts where users need to input information or modify existing data, helping users understand that they can interact with an element to make changes.

Pencil is one of 649 icons in Font Awesome 4, made by Dave Gandy and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 1536 × 1536 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 PencilIcon to components/icons/fa-pencil.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 PencilIcon 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 Pencil icon, or any of 649 Font Awesome 4 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 1536 × 1536 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="Pencil", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PencilIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PencilIcon 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. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Font Awesome 4, Dave Gandy and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

8 other libraries draw an icon called Pencil. 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 design, editing, tool, writing, art and create. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pencil in another set.