Caret Down
The caret-down icon represents a symbol used to indicate a dropdown or menu.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const CaretDownIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 256 256" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" fillRule="evenodd" d="M72.158 119.649c-11.578-11.362-2.954-31.242 12.729-31.005s71.904.238 87.357.238s23.578 19.299 12.17 30.815c-2.119 2.14-4.694 4.746-7.524 7.612c-12.403 12.561-29.725 30.102-35.25 35.125c-6.786 6.17-18.794 7.154-26.124-.31c-4.841-4.929-17.145-16.914-28.28-27.759c-5.727-5.579-11.145-10.856-15.078-14.716m14.225-13.763c-2.214-.011-2.735 1.24-1.173 2.794l40.888 40.324c1.555 1.547 2.705 1.547 4.283 0l39.596-39.868c1.578-1.548 1.065-2.812-1.145-2.823z" clipRule="evenodd"/>
</svg>
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What the Caret Down icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The caret-down icon represents a symbol used to indicate a dropdown or menu. It signifies a downward direction or expansion.
In software and digital platforms, this icon is often utilized in menus, dropdowns, and other interactive elements. For instance, in web applications like Bootstrap or Material-UI, the caret-down icon is used to indicate dropdown menus.
From a UX perspective, the caret-down icon effectively communicates the availability of additional options or content. It helps users understand that they can expand or reveal more information.
Caret Down is one of 155 icons in FontAudio, made by @fefanto and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 256 × 256 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 CaretDownIcon to components/icons/fad-caret-down.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 CaretDownIcon 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.
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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 256 × 256 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="Caret Down", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. CaretDownIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CaretDownIcon 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 (@fefanto) 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 @fefanto, 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.
8 other libraries draw an icon called Caret Down. 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 interface, design, UX, navigation, action and dropdown. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Caret Down in another set.
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