Play

This icon indicates media playback, video streaming, and audio control in modern interfaces. The triangular play button has become the universal symbol for starting content playback, resuming media, and initiating streaming experiences across all platforms.

In modern applications like YouTube or Spotify, you'll see this icon controlling video and audio playback initiation. It appears in video conferencing tools like Zoom when starting recordings, or in streaming platforms like Netflix when beginning content playback and resuming paused shows from saved positions.

From a media consumption perspective, the play symbol communicates more than just starting - it specifically indicates content activation, the transition from static to dynamic media, and the user's readiness to engage with time-based content. This visual cue helps users understand they're initiating media consumption rather than accessing static information.

Play is one of 100 icons in Flat UI Icons, made by Designmodo, Inc. and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 100.054 × 99.999 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 PlayIcon to components/icons/flat-ui-play.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 PlayIcon 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 Play 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 100.054 × 99.999 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="Play", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PlayIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PlayIcon 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 Play. 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 media, video, audio, playback, player and start. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Play in another set.