Message Square

The message-square icon represents fundamental text communication and messaging functionality across digital platforms. Featuring a rectangular speech bubble with a distinctive tail pointer, this symbol serves as the universal indicator for text messages, chat conversations, comments, and all forms of written communication in modern applications.

Users encounter this icon throughout social media platforms like Facebook Comments and professional networks such as LinkedIn when engaging in discussions and leaving feedback. Business communication tools including Microsoft Teams utilize this symbol for chat messages, while content management systems like WordPress employ similar iconography for comment sections and user discussions.

From a communication design perspective, the square speech bubble communicates more than simple messaging - it specifically indicates structured conversation spaces, organized dialogue environments, and the permanence of written communication compared to verbal exchanges. This symbol establishes clear communication boundaries and encourages thoughtful, documented conversations.

Message Square 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 MessageSquareIcon to components/icons/lucide-message-square.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 MessageSquareIcon 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: Message Square is `MessageSquareIcon` there, used as <MessageSquareIcon />. 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 Message Square 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.

Message Square 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="Message Square", so screen readers say what it does.

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

4 other libraries draw an icon called Message Square. 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 communication, text, message, chat, conversation and discussion. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Message Square in another set.