External

The external icon represents a link or connection to an outside resource or website. It is commonly used to indicate that a user will be redirected to an external site or page. This icon is often used in conjunction with links or buttons that lead to external content.

In software and web development, the external icon is frequently used in applications such as Figma, Notion, and GitHub to indicate links to external resources, websites, or documentation. For instance, a button with this icon might lead to a user's profile on a different platform.

From a UX perspective, the external icon helps users understand that they will be leaving the current interface or platform and accessing content from a different source. This icon communicates that the user will be redirected to an external site, which can be useful for transparency and trust-building.

External 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 ExternalIcon to components/icons/gridicons-external.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 ExternalIcon 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 External 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="External", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ExternalIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExternalIcon 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.

7 other libraries draw an icon called External. 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 navigation, action, web, link, external and redirect. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for External in another set.