Bulb

The bulb icon represents ideas and innovation in productivity applications and brainstorming tools. Featuring an illuminated light bulb with visible filament, this symbol has become the universal metaphor for creative thinking, problem-solving insights, and innovative solutions across collaboration platforms and ideation software.

In modern applications like Miro's brainstorming boards or innovation platforms like IdeaScale, you'll see this icon when creating idea cards, submitting suggestions, and marking innovative concepts. It appears in project management tools like Asana when tagging creative tasks, or in knowledge bases like Confluence when highlighting key insights and breakthrough solutions.

From an ideation perspective, the light bulb icon communicates more than just 'illumination' - it specifically indicates eureka moments, creative breakthroughs, and the cognitive spark of problem-solving. This metaphorical representation helps teams understand they're in ideation mode focused on innovation rather than execution or routine task completion.

Bulb is one of 100 icons in Flat UI Icons, made by Designmodo, Inc. and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 100 × 100 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 BulbIcon to components/icons/flat-ui-bulb.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 BulbIcon 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 Bulb icon, or any of 100 Flat UI Icons 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 100 × 100 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="Bulb", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BulbIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BulbIcon 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 Flat UI Icons, Designmodo, Inc. 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 Bulb. 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 innovation, creativity, inspiration, idea, insight and solution. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bulb in another set.