Magnify

The magnify icon represents a magnifying glass, symbolizing search and investigation. It originates from the material design system and is widely used in digital interfaces to facilitate search and discovery. The icon is often used to convey a sense of exploration and inquiry.

In real-world applications, the magnify icon appears in various software and platforms, such as search engines like Google, e-commerce websites like Amazon, and productivity tools like Trello. It is also commonly used in image editing software like Adobe Photoshop to enable zooming and magnification.

From a UX perspective, the magnify icon communicates that a user can search for or investigate something. It helps users understand that they can explore and discover new information, which can enhance their sense of control and agency.

Magnify is one of 304 icons in Material Design Light, made by Pictogrammers and released under Open Font License. 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 MagnifyIcon to components/icons/mdi-light-magnify.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 MagnifyIcon 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 Magnify icon, or any of 304 Material Design 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="Magnify", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. MagnifyIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MagnifyIcon 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. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License 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 Light, 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 Magnify. 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 search, zoom, discovery, investigation, exploration and magnify. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Magnify in another set.