Bell
The bell icon represents notifications, alerts, and messaging systems in communication applications.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const BellIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
<path fill="none" stroke="currentColor" strokeLinecap="round" strokeLinejoin="round" strokeWidth="2" d="M10.268 21a2 2 0 0 0 3.464 0m-10.47-5.674A1 1 0 0 0 4 17h16a1 1 0 0 0 .74-1.673C19.41 13.956 18 12.499 18 8A6 6 0 0 0 6 8c0 4.499-1.411 5.956-2.738 7.326"/>
</svg>
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What the Bell icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The bell icon represents notifications, alerts, and messaging systems in communication applications. Combining the classic bell shape, this symbol has become the universal indicator for incoming messages, alerts, and notification management across digital platforms.
In modern applications like social media platforms or messaging systems, you'll see this icon when accessing notification centers. It appears during alert management where users review incoming messages, or in communication systems where sound notifications indicate new activity requiring user attention.
From a communication flow perspective, the bell design communicates more than just "sound" - it specifically signals incoming information and attention requests. This urgency meaning helps in productivity applications where users need to understand they have pending notifications that may require immediate response or acknowledgment.
Bell is one of 1,655 icons in Lucide, made by Lucide Contributors and released under ISC. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2 stroke.
Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds BellIcon to components/icons/lucide-bell.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 BellIcon 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.
Yes, if your project has lucide-react: Bell is `BellIcon` there, used as <BellIcon />. The shadcn.io MCP server answers with that import when it finds the package. Without it, copy the icon from here.
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 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.
Bell is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 2. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.
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="Bell", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. BellIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BellIcon 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. ISC 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: ISC 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 Lucide, Lucide Contributors 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 Bell. 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 notification, alert, message, sound, signal and reminder. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bell in another set.
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