Emdash

The 'emdash' icon represents the em dash punctuation mark, which is used to indicate a break in thought or to set off a parenthetical remark. It is commonly used in writing and typography. The em dash has its roots in traditional typography.

The 'emdash' icon can be found in various software and platforms, such as text editors, word processors, and publishing tools. It is often used to add emphasis or to indicate a break in thought.

From a UX perspective, the 'emdash' icon communicates a break in thought or a shift in emphasis. It helps users understand the structure and flow of text.

Emdash is one of 348 icons in Ligature Symbols, made by Kazuyuki Motoyama and released under Open Font License. It is drawn on a 643 × 614 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 EmdashIcon to components/icons/ls-emdash.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 EmdashIcon 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 Emdash 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 643 × 614 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="Emdash", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. EmdashIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <EmdashIcon 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.

Its tags are typography, text, language, character, font and punctuation. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Emdash in another set.