Arrow Left

The arrow-left icon represents backward navigation and return actions in digital interfaces. This leftward-pointing arrow has established itself as the universal symbol for 'back' buttons, previous page navigation, and undo operations across web browsers and mobile applications.

In modern applications like Spotify's navigation stack or Airbnb's property browsing, you'll see this icon enabling seamless backward movement through application flows. It appears in web browsers as the primary back button, in e-commerce checkout processes when returning to previous steps, and in mobile apps following the platform-standard back navigation patterns.

From a user experience standpoint, the leftward arrow signifies more than simple direction - it represents navigation history, state restoration, and the ability to safely reverse decisions. This distinction helps users feel confident exploring interfaces knowing they can easily retrace their steps without losing context or progress.

Arrow Left is one of 84 icons in Icalicons, made by Icalia Labs and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 380 × 790 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 ArrowLeftIcon to components/icons/il-arrow-left.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 ArrowLeftIcon 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.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Arrow Left icon, or any of 84 Icalicons 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 380 × 790 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="Arrow Left", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ArrowLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ArrowLeftIcon 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 Icalicons, Icalia Labs 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 Arrow Left. 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 arrow, back, previous, undo, return and navigate. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Arrow Left in another set.