Description Outline
The description-outline icon represents a descriptive outline symbol, often used in documentation and informational contexts.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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Description Outline in your framework
In any framework. Customize it above, and the code follows.
export const DescriptionOutlineIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" {...props}>
<path fill="currentColor" d="M8 18h8v-2H8zm0-4h8v-2H8zm-2 8q-.825 0-1.412-.587T4 20V4q0-.825.588-1.412T6 2h8l6 6v12q0 .825-.587 1.413T18 22zm7-13V4H6v16h12V9zM6 4v5zv16z"/>
</svg>
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Description Outline in 3 more libraries
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What the Description Outline icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The description-outline icon represents a descriptive outline symbol, often used in documentation and informational contexts. It originates from Google's Material Symbols library, which provides a wide range of icons for various applications. This icon signifies a detailed explanation or description of something.
In software and digital platforms, the description-outline icon appears in help sections, documentation pages, and tutorial guides. For instance, it might be used in online knowledge bases, such as Wikipedia or Stack Overflow, to indicate detailed explanations or comments.
From a UX perspective, this icon communicates the availability of more information or detailed explanations. It helps users understand that there is additional context or supporting content related to a particular feature or function, encouraging them to explore further.
Description Outline is one of 15,862 icons in Material Symbols, made by Google and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 DescriptionOutlineIcon to components/icons/material-symbols-description-outline.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 DescriptionOutlineIcon 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.
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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.
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="Description Outline", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. DescriptionOutlineIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <DescriptionOutlineIcon 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. Apache 2.0 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: Apache 2.0 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 Material Symbols, Google and the license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
3 other libraries draw an icon called Description Outline. 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 material, google, information, symbols, documentation and description. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Description Outline in another set.
Material Symbols draws many icons in several styles: Outline, Rounded and Sharp next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Description Outline's siblings in it.
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