Expand Less

The expand-less icon represents a control element used to collapse or minimize content, often seen in interfaces where vertical space is limited. It originates from Material Design, a popular design system developed by Google.

In software and platforms, the expand-less icon appears in various contexts, such as in accordions on websites, where clicking on a title expands or collapses the content below. This icon is also commonly used in file explorers, where users can expand or collapse directories to manage files efficiently.

From a UX perspective, the expand-less icon communicates the ability to hide or reveal more information. It helps users understand that there is more content available and allows them to control the amount of information displayed on the screen, thereby enhancing their navigational experience.

Expand Less is one of 15,390 icons in Material Symbols Light, 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 ExpandLessIcon to components/icons/material-symbols-light-expand-less.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 ExpandLessIcon 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.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Expand Less icon, or any of 15,390 Material Symbols Light 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.

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="Expand Less", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ExpandLessIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExpandLessIcon 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 Light, Google and the license.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Expand Less. 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 UI, interface, navigation, action, control and element. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Expand Less in another set.

Material Symbols Light 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 Expand Less's siblings in it.