Clippy

The clippy icon represents a virtual assistant that helps users with writing and editing tasks. It originated from Microsoft's Office Assistant, a feature introduced in the 1990s to provide users with helpful tips and assistance. The clippy character, named after a paperclip, was designed to be friendly and approachable.

In software applications, the clippy icon is often used in word processing and document editing tools, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It may appear as a tooltip or a pop-up window, offering suggestions and guidance to users as they work on their documents.

From a UX perspective, the clippy icon communicates a sense of helpfulness and support. It lets users know that they have access to resources and guidance as they navigate complex software interfaces. The icon's friendly design helps to reduce user anxiety and makes the software more approachable.

Clippy is one of 7,638 icons in Material Design Icons, made by Pictogrammers 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 ClippyIcon to components/icons/mdi-clippy.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 ClippyIcon 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 Clippy icon, or any of 7,638 Material Design Icons 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="Clippy", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ClippyIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ClippyIcon 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 Design Icons, Pictogrammers 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 Clippy. 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 software, document, editing, productivity, office and assistant. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Clippy in another set.

Material Design Icons draws many icons in several styles: Outline next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Clippy's siblings in it.