Caret Up Outline

The caret-up-outline icon represents an outlined arrow pointing upwards, indicating movement or progression to a previous step or upward direction. This icon is commonly used in user interfaces to signify going back or moving up in a hierarchy with a soft, visual cue. It originates from the need to visually represent navigation in digital and software applications with a focus on subtle designs.

In software and digital applications, the caret-up-outline icon is often used in navigation controls, such as in dropdown menus, breadcrumb navigation, or hierarchical structures where a subtle visual cue is desired. For instance, in web browsers, this icon can be used to move up a level in a webpage's history with a minimalist design. Similarly, in file systems, it is used to navigate to a parent directory with a focus on subtle UI elements.

From a UX perspective, the caret-up-outline icon effectively communicates the idea of moving up or backward in a soft and understated manner. It helps users understand that they can navigate to a previous step or a higher level in a hierarchy, guiding them through the interface without drawing too much attention away from other UI elements. Its outlined arrow shape pointing upward clearly conveys the action of moving up.

Caret Up Outline is one of 2,361 icons in IonIcons, made by Ben Sperry and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 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 CaretUpOutlineIcon to components/icons/ion-caret-up-outline.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 CaretUpOutlineIcon 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 Caret Up Outline icon, or any of 2,361 IonIcons 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 512 × 512 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="Caret Up Outline", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CaretUpOutlineIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CaretUpOutlineIcon 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 IonIcons, Ben Sperry 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 Caret Up Outline. 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, navigation, action, button and backward. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Caret Up Outline in another set.

IonIcons draws many icons in several styles: Outline and Sharp next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Caret Up Outline's siblings in it.