Bars 2

The bars-2 icon represents a minimalist menu indicator with two horizontal lines in modern navigation interfaces. This simplified variant of the traditional hamburger menu provides a more subtle navigation trigger, often used for streamlined interfaces or secondary navigation menus across digital applications.

In modern applications with minimal design aesthetics or secondary navigation panels, you'll see this icon triggering compact menu systems. It appears in design tools like Figma when accessing tool options, or in mobile apps when providing secondary navigation layers with understated menu indicators.

From a user experience perspective, the two-bar symbol communicates more than just a menu - it specifically indicates simplified navigation, minimal menu structures, and the optimization of interface real estate for clean, uncluttered layouts. This visual pattern helps users identify secondary or simplified navigation options.

Bars 2 is one of 1,288 icons in HeroIcons, made by Refactoring UI Inc and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 1.5 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 Bars2Icon to components/icons/heroicons-bars-2.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 Bars2Icon 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.

Yes, if your project has @heroicons/react/24/outline: Bars 2 is `Bars2Icon` there, used as <Bars2Icon />. The shadcn.io MCP server answers with that import when it finds the package. Without it, copy the icon from here.

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 Bars 2 icon, or any of 1,288 HeroIcons 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, and its stroke.

Bars 2 is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 1.5. 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="Bars 2", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. Bars2Icon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <Bars2Icon 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 HeroIcons, Refactoring UI Inc and the license.

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

2 other libraries draw an icon called Bars 2. 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, menu, simple, minimal, bars and hamburger. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bars 2 in another set.

HeroIcons draws many icons in several styles: Solid next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Bars 2's siblings in it.