Play Pause
The play-pause icon represents the actions of playing and pausing media content, often used to toggle between these two states.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const PlayPauseIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<path fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="1.5" d="M21 7.5V18M15 7.5V18M3 16.811V8.69c0-.864.933-1.406 1.683-.977l7.108 4.061a1.125 1.125 0 0 1 0 1.954l-7.108 4.061A1.125 1.125 0 0 1 3 16.811Z"/>
</svg>
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What the Play Pause icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The play-pause icon represents the actions of playing and pausing media content, often used to toggle between these two states. This icon is crucial in digital media and user interface design, conveying a sense of control over media playback. The design of the icon clearly indicates both play and pause functions.
In software applications, the play-pause icon appears in various contexts, such as media players, video streaming services, and music apps. For instance, it might be used in a video player to play or pause a video or in a music app to control music playback. The icon's presence helps users quickly identify and manage media playback.
From a UX perspective, the play-pause icon effectively communicates the functionality of controlling media playback. Its recognizable design allows users to understand its purpose without confusion. When used consistently across an application or platform, this icon helps establish a clear visual language for media-related features.
Play Pause is one of 385 icons in HeroIcons v1 Outline, 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 PlayPauseIcon to components/icons/heroicons-outline-play-pause.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 PlayPauseIcon 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.
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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.
Play Pause 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="Play Pause", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. PlayPauseIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PlayPauseIcon 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 v1 Outline, Refactoring UI Inc and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
8 other libraries draw an icon called Play Pause. 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 media, control, video, audio, music and playback. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Play Pause in another set.
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