Github

The GitHub icon represents the world's leading platform for version control and code collaboration. This Octocat logo connects developers to repositories, facilitates code sharing, and enables collaborative software development.

In modern applications like developer portfolios or deployment platforms like Vercel, you'll see this icon linking to GitHub repositories and enabling git integrations. It appears in documentation sites when viewing source code, in authentication systems when implementing GitHub OAuth, and in CI/CD pipelines when triggering builds from repository events and code changes.

From a development workflow perspective, the GitHub symbol communicates more than code storage - it specifically indicates version control, collaborative development, and participation in open-source communities. This distinction helps technical users understand they're accessing professional development infrastructure.

Github is one of 84 icons in Icalicons, made by Icalia Labs and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 760 × 800 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 GithubIcon to components/icons/il-github.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 GithubIcon 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 Github 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 760 × 800 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="Github", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GithubIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GithubIcon 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 Github. 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 code, Git, version-control, repository, github and developer. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Github in another set.