Lightbulb
The lightbulb icon represents an idea, inspiration, or innovation, often symbolizing creativity, thought, and concept.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const LightbulbIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 512 512" {...props}>
<path d="M256 32c-70.7 0-128 55.4-128 123.8 0 4.9.3 9.7.9 14.5.6 5.4 1.6 10.6 3 15.7.1.5.3 1.1.4 1.6 16.6 62.8 45.3 71.5 58.9 167.6 0 .2.1.4.1.5 1.5 9.2 9.8 12.3 19.8 12.3H301c10 0 18.2-3.1 19.7-12.3 0-.2.1-.4.1-.5 13.6-96.1 42.3-104.7 58.9-167.6.2-.5.3-1 .4-1.6 1.3-5.1 2.3-10.4 3-15.7.6-4.7.9-9.6.9-14.5C384 87.4 326.7 32 256 32z" fill="currentColor"/><path d="M317.8 396.5c.1-.2.3-.4.4-.6 1.1-1.7 1.7-3.6 1.7-5.7 0-3.5 1.6-6.2-6.5-6.2H198.6c-8.1 0-6.5 2.1-6.5 6.2 0 2.1.6 4 1.7 5.7.1.2.3.4.5.6 0 .1.1.1.1.2 1.7 2.6 2.7 4.4 2.7 7.6 0 3.1-.9 4.9-2.6 7.5-.3.4-.5.7-.7 1-1 1.7-1.6 3.6-1.6 5.6 0 2.1.6 4 1.7 5.8.1.2.3.4.4.6 1.8 2.7 2.8 4.5 2.8 7.8 0 3.1-.9 4.9-2.6 7.4-.2.4-.5.7-.8 1.1-1 1.7-1.6 3.6-1.6 5.6 0 5.4 4.3 10.1 10.2 11.6.3.1.6.1.9.2 6 1.4 12.2 1.6 18.5 2.5.7.1 1.4.2 2.2.3 5.6 1 10.3 3.9 13.4 7.7 3.8 5.3 10.8 11 18.8 11 7.6 0 14.3-5.4 18.2-10.4 3-4.2 8-7.3 13.9-8.4.7-.1 1.4-.3 2.2-.3 6.3-.9 12.5-1.1 18.5-2.5.3-.1.6-.1.9-.2 5.9-1.6 10.2-6.2 10.2-11.6 0-2-.6-3.9-1.6-5.6-.3-.4-.5-.7-.8-1.1-1.6-2.6-2.6-4.3-2.6-7.4 0-3.2 1-5.1 2.8-7.8.1-.2.3-.4.4-.6 1.1-1.7 1.7-3.7 1.7-5.8 0-2-.6-3.9-1.6-5.6-.3-.3-.5-.7-.7-1-1.6-2.6-2.6-4.3-2.6-7.5s1-5 2.7-7.6c0 .1 0 0 .1-.1z" fill="currentColor"/>
</svg>
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What the Lightbulb icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The lightbulb icon represents an idea, inspiration, or innovation, often symbolizing creativity, thought, and concept. This icon is significant in various domains, including business, education, and technology, where ideas and insights are crucial. The lightbulb icon is derived from the traditional lightbulb symbol and has been adapted for digital use.
In software and digital platforms, the lightbulb icon appears in various applications, such as project management tools like Asana, where users can brainstorm and share ideas. It's also found in note-taking apps like Evernote, where users can jot down thoughts and insights. Additionally, design platforms like Canva use the lightbulb icon to represent creative ideas.
From a UX perspective, the lightbulb icon communicates a sense of innovation and creativity, helping users understand that they can generate and explore new ideas within the platform. It provides a clear visual cue that encourages users to think outside the box and come up with novel solutions.
Lightbulb 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 LightbulbIcon to components/icons/ion-lightbulb.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 LightbulbIcon 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 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="Lightbulb", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. LightbulbIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <LightbulbIcon 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 Lightbulb. 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 innovation, creativity, inspiration, idea, thought and concept. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Lightbulb 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 Lightbulb's siblings in it.
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