Background
The background icon represents a design element used to set the background of a digital interface.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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Background in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const BackgroundIcon = (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="M4.253 20.302C5.655 21.5 7.77 21.5 12 21.5s6.345 0 7.747-1.198q.3-.256.555-.555C21.5 18.345 21.5 16.23 21.5 12s0-6.345-1.198-7.747q-.256-.3-.555-.555C18.345 2.5 16.23 2.5 12 2.5s-6.345 0-7.747 1.198q-.3.256-.555.555C2.5 5.655 2.5 7.77 2.5 12s0 6.345 1.198 7.747q.256.3.555.555M4 20L20 4M2.698 15.802L15.806 2.694m5.5 5.5L8.198 21.302m5.302.198l8-8m-19-3l8-8"/>
</svg>
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What the Background icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The background icon represents a design element used to set the background of a digital interface. It is commonly used in graphic design and digital art to symbolize the base layer of a composition.
In software and applications, the background icon may appear in settings or design tools where users can customize the appearance of their workspace. For example, in Figma or Adobe XD, users can adjust the background of their design project.
From a UX perspective, the background icon helps users understand that they can customize the visual appearance of the interface. It communicates the possibility of changing the background image, color, or pattern.
Background is one of 4,585 icons in Huge Icons, made by Hugeicons 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 BackgroundIcon to components/icons/hugeicons-background.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 BackgroundIcon 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.
Background 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="Background", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. BackgroundIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BackgroundIcon 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 Huge Icons, Hugeicons and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
1 other library draws an icon called Background. 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 UI, interface, design, element, screen and theme. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Background in another set.
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