Chevron Left 16 Solid
This compact 16-pixel solid chevron-left icon represents backward navigation in space-constrained interfaces with its minimalist leftward arrow design.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const ChevronLeft16SolidIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 16 16" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" fillRule="evenodd" d="M9.78 4.22a.75.75 0 0 1 0 1.06L7.06 8l2.72 2.72a.75.75 0 1 1-1.06 1.06L5.47 8.53a.75.75 0 0 1 0-1.06l3.25-3.25a.75.75 0 0 1 1.06 0" clipRule="evenodd"/>
</svg>
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What the Chevron Left 16 Solid icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
This compact 16-pixel solid chevron-left icon represents backward navigation in space-constrained interfaces with its minimalist leftward arrow design. The solid fill and small dimensions make it ideal for inline back controls, compact breadcrumbs, and dense navigation systems where directional affordances must coexist with limited visual space.
In modern applications like VS Code's file navigation breadcrumbs or Notion's compact back buttons in nested page hierarchies, you'll see this mini chevron enabling backward movement within tight layouts. It appears in mobile app headers where screen width is limited, or in carousel controls like those in Instagram stories where compact navigation buttons maintain content focus.
From a responsive interface perspective, the 16-pixel solid format communicates more than basic leftward direction - it specifically indicates space-optimized backward navigation, inline return capabilities, and the integration of hierarchical movement within compact control areas. The small size ensures back affordances don't compete with primary content for visual attention.
Chevron Left 16 Solid is one of 1,288 icons in HeroIcons, made by Refactoring UI Inc and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 16 × 16 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 ChevronLeft16SolidIcon to components/icons/heroicons-chevron-left-16-solid.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 ChevronLeft16SolidIcon 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/16/solid: Chevron Left 16 Solid is `ChevronLeftIcon` there, used as <ChevronLeftIcon />. 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 Chevron Left 16 Solid 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 16 × 16 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="Chevron Left 16 Solid", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. ChevronLeft16SolidIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ChevronLeft16SolidIcon 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 Chevron Left 16 Solid. 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 solid, compact, back, left, previous and 16px. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Chevron Left 16 Solid 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 Chevron Left 16 Solid's siblings in it.
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