Camera

The camera icon represents photography and image capture functionality in media and content creation applications. Featuring a classic camera design with lens and body structure, this photography symbol has become the universal standard for indicating photo capture, image recording, and visual content creation across social media platforms and creative application interfaces.

In modern platforms like Instagram's photo capture or camera applications with photography features, you'll see this icon when users access photo-taking capabilities or image creation tools. It appears in media interfaces during photo capture workflows, or in content creation applications where users take pictures, record visual content, or engage in photography requiring systematic image management and visual content organization.

From a content creation perspective, the traditional camera design communicates more than just 'image tool' - it specifically indicates deliberate photography and intentional visual content creation that emphasizes composition, timing, and visual storytelling rather than casual image browsing or simple media viewing. This creative emphasis helps in photography workflows where users need to understand they're engaging with tools designed for active content creation rather than passive media consumption or basic image management.

Camera 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 CameraIcon to components/icons/lucide-camera.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 CameraIcon 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: Camera is `CameraIcon` there, used as <CameraIcon />. 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.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Camera icon, or any of 1,655 Lucide 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 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.

Camera 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="Camera", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CameraIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CameraIcon 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 Camera. 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 image, visual, camera, photography, recording and photo. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Camera in another set.