Compass

The compass icon represents a navigation tool used to determine direction. It originated from ancient times and is still widely used today in various fields such as navigation, surveying, and orienteering. The compass is a crucial instrument for finding one's way, especially in unfamiliar territories.

In real-world applications, the compass icon is often used in mapping and navigation software, such as Google Maps, to indicate direction and location. It is also commonly found in travel and outdoor-related platforms, like travel guides and hiking apps.

From a UX perspective, the compass icon communicates a sense of exploration and discovery. It helps users understand that they can navigate and find their way through an interface or a physical space. The compass icon can also be used to indicate the current direction or orientation of an object or a character.

Compass is one of 348 icons in Ligature Symbols, made by Kazuyuki Motoyama and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 717 × 717 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 CompassIcon to components/icons/ls-compass.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 CompassIcon 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 Compass 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 717 × 717 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="Compass", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CompassIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CompassIcon 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 Compass. 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 navigation, direction, travel, location, explore and discover. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Compass in another set.