Back Arrow

The back arrow icon represents a directional symbol used for navigation, indicating a return to a previous page, section, or state. It is commonly used in digital interfaces to facilitate user navigation.

In software and digital platforms, the back arrow icon may appear in web browsers, mobile apps, or desktop applications where navigation and user flow are crucial. For example, it could be used in a web browser to go back to a previous webpage.

From a UX perspective, the back arrow icon communicates a clear and standard way for users to navigate backward, reducing confusion and enhancing usability.

Back Arrow is one of 3,174 icons in Fluent Emoji Flat, made by Microsoft Corporation and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 32 × 32 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 BackArrowIcon to components/icons/fluent-emoji-flat-back-arrow.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 BackArrowIcon 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 Back Arrow icon, or any of 3,174 Fluent Emoji Flat 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 32 × 32 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="Back Arrow", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BackArrowIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BackArrowIcon 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 Fluent Emoji Flat, Microsoft Corporation and the license.

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

2 other libraries draw an icon called Back Arrow. 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, navigation, arrow, back, previous and return. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Back Arrow in another set.

Fluent Emoji Flat draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Back Arrow's siblings in it.