Layer
This icon represents layers, stacking order, and depth organization in design and development applications, typically featuring overlapping shapes that suggest hierarchical positioning.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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Layer in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const LayerIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 256 256" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<g fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="16"><path d="M 16,80 127.94695,15.974538"/><path d="m 16,80 112,64"/><path d="m 16,176 112,64"/><path d="M 128,16 240,80"/><path d="M 128,144 240,80"/><path d="M 128,240 240,176"/><path d="m 16,128 112,64"/><path d="M 128,192 239.94695,128.0019"/><path d="M 16,128 58.031909,104.01298"/><path d="M 16,176 58.032661,151.99127"/><path d="m 239.94694,128.00191 -41.9796,-23.98708"/><path d="M 240,176 197.96608,151.99056"/></g>
</svg>
);Other libraries
Layer in 8 more libraries
Each library draws it its own way. Open one to compare.
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FAQ
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What the Layer icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
This icon represents layers, stacking order, and depth organization in design and development applications, typically featuring overlapping shapes that suggest hierarchical positioning. As the fundamental concept in visual composition, this icon has become the standard indicator for layer management, z-index control, and depth organization across design tools and interface builders.
In design applications like Figma, Adobe Photoshop, and Sketch, this icon provides access to layer panels and stacking order controls. Web development tools such as Chrome DevTools and Firefox Developer Tools use it for inspecting element layers and z-index visualization, while 3D modeling software like Blender deploys it for managing object hierarchy and rendering order.
From a visual composition perspective, the layer icon communicates more than just stacking functionality - it represents depth perception, organizational hierarchy, and the fundamental structure of complex visual compositions. The overlapping metaphor helps users understand that digital designs consist of multiple independent elements arranged in specific orders.
Layer is one of 50 icons in Gala Icons, made by Jake Wells and released under GPL. It is drawn on a 256 × 256 grid with a 16 stroke.
Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds LayerIcon to components/icons/gala-layer.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 LayerIcon 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, and its stroke.
Layer is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 16. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.
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="Layer", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. LayerIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <LayerIcon 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.
GPL is copyleft: what you ship with the icons may have to use the same license. Check it fits your project first. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.
Keep the GPL notice with the icons, and credit Jake Wells as it asks. GPL is copyleft, so what you ship with them may have to use the same 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 Layer. 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 hierarchy, order, composition and depth. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Layer in another set.
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