Shield
This icon represents protection, security, and defensive systems in digital applications, featuring the classic shield shape that has symbolized defense and safeguarding throughout history.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
Code
Shield in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const ShieldIcon = (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 128,239.89376 c 0,0 -95.908938,-31.96965 -95.908938,-111.89376"/><path d="M 32.091062,128 V 32.09106 c 0,0 31.969645,-15.984825 95.908938,-15.984825"/><path d="m 128,239.89376 c 0,0 95.90894,-31.96965 95.90894,-111.89376"/><path d="M 223.90894,128 V 32.09106 c 0,0 -31.96965,-15.984823 -95.90894,-15.984823"/><path d="m 128,239.89376 2.8e-4,-223.787523"/></g>
</svg>
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Shield in 8 more libraries
Each library draws it its own way. Open one to compare.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What the Shield icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
This icon represents protection, security, and defensive systems in digital applications, featuring the classic shield shape that has symbolized defense and safeguarding throughout history. As a powerful security metaphor, this icon has become the standard representation for protection features, security layers, and safety mechanisms across modern software platforms.
In security software like Malwarebytes and Bitdefender, this icon indicates active protection and threat defense. Web browsers use it for site security indicators and privacy protection features, while enterprise security platforms like CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks deploy it for endpoint protection status and security policy enforcement throughout their dashboards.
From a cybersecurity perspective, the shield icon communicates more than just protective functionality - it represents layered defense strategies, threat mitigation, and the standing guard against digital attacks. The medieval shield metaphor effectively translates physical protection concepts into digital security contexts, creating immediate understanding of defensive postures.
Shield 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 ShieldIcon to components/icons/gala-shield.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 ShieldIcon 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.
Shield 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="Shield", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ShieldIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ShieldIcon 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 Shield. 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 security, safety, protection, defense, guard and protective. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Shield in another set.
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