Skeleton

The skeleton icon represents a loading animation or progress indicator, often used in digital interfaces to signify that content is being loaded. This icon is used to convey a sense of activity and progress in healthcare applications, websites, or software. It originates from the Health Icons library, designed to provide visual elements for health-related platforms. The icon's design aims to communicate dynamism and responsiveness.

In real-world applications, this skeleton icon appears in healthcare apps, medical websites, and health-focused software, where loading animations are necessary to improve user experience. For example, it can be found on patient portals, medical record systems, and health information websites.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates progress, activity, and responsiveness. It helps users understand that content is being loaded, reducing anxiety and improving engagement with the platform.

Skeleton is one of 2,691 icons in Health Icons, made by Resolve to Save Lives and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 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 SkeletonIcon to components/icons/healthicons-skeleton.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 SkeletonIcon 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 Skeleton icon, or any of 2,691 Health 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 48 × 48 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="Skeleton", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. SkeletonIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <SkeletonIcon 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. MIT allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: MIT only asks that you keep the license notice if you ship the icons' source files. Icons installed with the shadcn CLI already start with a comment naming Health Icons, Resolve to Save Lives and the 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 Skeleton. 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 medical icon. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Skeleton in another set.

Health Icons draws many icons in several styles: Outline next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Skeleton's siblings in it.