Sun
The sun icon represents light mode and brightness control with its radiating sun design showing illumination.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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Sun in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const SunIcon = (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="M12 3v2.25m6.364.386l-1.591 1.591M21 12h-2.25m-.386 6.364l-1.591-1.591M12 18.75V21m-4.773-4.227l-1.591 1.591M5.25 12H3m4.227-4.773L5.636 5.636M15.75 12a3.75 3.75 0 1 1-7.5 0a3.75 3.75 0 0 1 7.5 0"/>
</svg>
);Other libraries
Sun in 8 more libraries
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What the Sun icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The sun icon represents light mode and brightness control with its radiating sun design showing illumination. This light symbol has become the universal indicator for light theme, brightness settings, day mode, and illumination controls across all modern applications and theme systems.
In modern applications like theme switchers or appearance settings in platforms like macOS, you'll see this sun indicating light mode, theme switching, and appearance control. It appears in theme interfaces where light mode requires clear visual markers, or in appearance systems where brightness features need explicit representation.
From a theme perspective, the sun design communicates more than brightness - it specifically indicates light theme, day mode, and the visual nature of light appearance versus dark mode. This distinction helps users recognize theme features versus display brightness.
Sun 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 SunIcon to components/icons/heroicons-sun.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 SunIcon 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: Sun is `SunIcon` there, used as <SunIcon />. 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.
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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.
Sun 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="Sun", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. SunIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <SunIcon 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.
8 other libraries draw an icon called Sun. 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 light, theme, illumination, sun, brightness and appearance. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Sun 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 Sun's siblings in it.
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