Minimize

The minimize icon represents window reduction and interface compression functionality in desktop and web applications. Featuring inward-pointing corner arrows that suggest content contraction, this symbol has become the standard indicator for reducing window sizes, collapsing panels, and creating more compact interface layouts across operating systems and web platforms.

In modern applications like VS Code's panel controls or Slack's sidebar management, users encounter this icon when reducing interface elements and optimizing screen real estate for focused workflows. Popular platforms including Notion's page views and Figma's design panels display this symbol for workspace customization, while video conferencing tools like Zoom utilize it for participant view optimization and meeting interface management.

From a user experience perspective, the minimize symbol communicates more than just "make smaller" - it specifically indicates space optimization, focus enhancement, and distraction reduction for improved productivity and workflow efficiency. This distinction helps users understand they're entering concentrated work modes rather than simple size adjustments or basic layout modifications.

Minimize 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 MinimizeIcon to components/icons/lucide-minimize.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 MinimizeIcon 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: Minimize is `MinimizeIcon` there, used as <MinimizeIcon />. 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 Minimize 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.

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

Yes. MinimizeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MinimizeIcon 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 Minimize. 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 control, window, workspace, compact, collapse and reduce. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Minimize in another set.