Help Buoy

The help-buoy icon represents a floating device providing assistance, symbolizing support or guidance in a more playful way. It is often used to convey a sense of approachability or friendliness. This icon can be used in various contexts, such as indicating a helpful resource or suggesting a solution.

In software applications, the help-buoy icon may appear in online support systems, chatbots, or tutorial sections, where users can seek assistance. For instance, a user might click on this icon to access a guided tour or walkthrough.

From a UX perspective, the help-buoy icon communicates a sense of approachability or approachable support, allowing users to feel more at ease when seeking help. It helps users understand that there are resources available to support them in a friendly and approachable way.

Help Buoy is one of 1,342 icons in Famicons, made by Family and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 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 HelpBuoyIcon to components/icons/famicons-help-buoy.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 HelpBuoyIcon 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 Help Buoy icon, or any of 1,342 Famicons 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 512 × 512 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="Help Buoy", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. HelpBuoyIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <HelpBuoyIcon 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. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT 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 Famicons, Family and the license.

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

1 other library draws an icon called Help Buoy. 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, icon, support, help, assistance and famicons. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Help Buoy in another set.

Famicons draws many icons in several styles: Outline and Sharp next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Help Buoy's siblings in it.