Asterisk

The asterisk icon represents the asterisk symbol, a punctuation mark used in various contexts, including mathematics, typography, and communication. It is often used as a wildcard character in computing, representing any character or string of characters. The asterisk symbol has its origins in ancient Greece, where it was used as a mark to indicate a missing letter or word.

In software applications, the asterisk icon appears in phone systems, where it is used to represent the '*' key, and in spreadsheet software, such as Microsoft Excel, where it is used as a multiplication operator. It is also used in programming languages, like C and JavaScript, where it is used as a multiplication operator or to represent a pointer.

From a UX perspective, the asterisk icon communicates a sense of flexibility or variability, often indicating that a field or input requires a specific format or that a command can be used in multiple contexts. In phone systems, it may be used to represent a special key or to invoke a specific action, helping users to interact with the system more efficiently.

Asterisk is one of 348 icons in Ligature Symbols, made by Kazuyuki Motoyama and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 348 × 719 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 AsteriskIcon to components/icons/ls-asterisk.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 AsteriskIcon 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 Asterisk icon, or any of 348 Ligature Symbols 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 348 × 719 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="Asterisk", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. AsteriskIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <AsteriskIcon 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. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License 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 Ligature Symbols, Kazuyuki Motoyama 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 Asterisk. 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 symbol, communication, typography, phone, math and punctuation. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Asterisk in another set.