Turn Left

The turn-left icon represents a navigation action to move or turn left, often used in applications to indicate a change in direction or a shift to a previous state. This icon symbolizes a clear and direct way to navigate through content, helping users understand that they can move to a previous location or state. The left direction implies a move to the past or a return to a previous point.

In software applications, the turn-left icon appears in web browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge, where users can navigate back to a previous page. It's also found in file explorers, media players, or document viewers, where users need to navigate through content. For instance, in web browsing, the turn-left icon might be used to navigate back to a previous webpage.

From a UX perspective, the turn-left icon communicates a clear and direct way to navigate, helping users understand that they can move to a previous state or location. The icon implies a sense of movement and direction, making it easy for users to navigate through content. When users interact with the turn-left icon, they expect to find a straightforward way to move back to a previous point.

Turn Left 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 TurnLeftIcon to components/icons/material-symbols-turn-left.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 TurnLeftIcon 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 Turn Left icon, or any of 15,862 Material Symbols 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="Turn Left", so screen readers say what it does.

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

2 other libraries draw an icon called Turn Left. 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 navigation, direction, arrow, previous and backward. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Turn Left 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 Turn Left's siblings in it.