Clear Formatting

The clear-formatting icon represents a text formatting removal functionality, often used to indicate that users can reset or clear text formatting. This icon is commonly used in user interfaces to facilitate text editing and formatting. Its widespread use has made it a recognizable symbol for users to expect text formatting removal.

In software applications, the clear-formatting icon appears in various contexts, such as text editors, word processors, or online content creation tools. For instance, the icon is used in Google Docs to remove text formatting or in Microsoft Word to clear formatting options. Additionally, many websites use this icon to enable users to reset or clear text formatting.

From a UX perspective, the clear-formatting icon effectively communicates the availability of text formatting removal, providing users with a clear indication of the potential for resetting text formatting. The icon's simplicity and universality ensure that users can quickly understand and respond to the clear-formatting signal.

Clear Formatting is one of 207 icons in Gridicons, made by Automattic and released under GPL 2.0. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 ClearFormattingIcon to components/icons/gridicons-clear-formatting.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 ClearFormattingIcon 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 Clear Formatting icon, or any of 207 Gridicons 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 24 × 24 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="Clear Formatting", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ClearFormattingIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ClearFormattingIcon 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 2.0 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 2.0 notice with the icons, and credit Automattic as it asks. GPL 2.0 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.

4 other libraries draw an icon called Clear Formatting. 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, action, text, style, edit and formatting. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Clear Formatting in another set.