Windmill

The windmill icon represents a device that harnesses wind energy to perform mechanical work, often used for milling grain or pumping water. Windmills have a rich history, dating back to ancient times, and have played a significant role in agriculture, industry, and energy production.

In software applications, particularly those related to energy, agriculture, or history, the windmill icon may be used to represent traditional energy sources, indicate mechanical engineering, or evoke a sense of nostalgia. For example, games like Age of Empires or agricultural simulators might use such an icon to display energy production, signal technological advancements, or recreate historical settings.

From a UX perspective, the windmill icon communicates a sense of tradition, innovation, or mechanical ingenuity, helping users understand historical context or navigate interfaces related to energy, agriculture, or engineering. It can also facilitate engagement and exploration, such as accessing historical information, technical guides, or interactive simulations.

Windmill is one of 4,123 icons in Game Icons, made by GameIcons and released under CC BY 3.0. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 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 WindmillIcon to components/icons/game-icons-windmill.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 WindmillIcon 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 Windmill icon, or any of 4,123 Game Icons icons, and install it from a prompt.

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 512 × 512 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

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="Windmill", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. WindmillIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <WindmillIcon 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, with credit: CC BY 3.0 asks you to credit the author (GameIcons) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 3.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by GameIcons, CC BY 3.0" on an about or credits page.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Windmill. 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 energy, game, history, agriculture and wind. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Windmill in another set.