Read

The read icon represents a document or book being read, symbolizing the act of learning and acquiring knowledge. It is often used in educational and literary contexts to convey the idea of reading and comprehension. The icon is derived from the Material Design Icons library, which provides a wide range of icons for various applications. The read icon is commonly used in e-learning platforms, educational websites, and digital libraries.

In real-world applications, the read icon appears in software such as e-book readers, digital libraries, and educational platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and edX. It is also used in mobile apps like Scribd, Medium, and Apple Books.

From a UX perspective, the read icon communicates the idea of accessing and consuming written content, helping users understand the functionality of a button or link. It can be used to indicate a 'read more' or 'learn more' action, guiding users to explore additional information.

Read 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 ReadIcon to components/icons/mdi-read.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 ReadIcon 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 Read 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="Read", so screen readers say what it does.

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

5 other libraries draw an icon called Read. 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 document, education, learning, research, book and literacy. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Read 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 Read's siblings in it.