Arrow Left

The arrow-left icon represents a directional symbol indicating movement or action in a leftward direction. It originates from basic typographic symbols and has become a standard icon in digital interfaces for navigation and indication. Its significance lies in its universal recognition as a symbol for moving left or going back.

In real-world applications, the arrow-left icon is commonly used in web browsers like Google Chrome, where it signifies going back to the previous page, and in mobile apps like Instagram, where it indicates navigating to the previous screen or post. This icon is also prevalent in text editors like Microsoft Word, where it is used for undo actions or moving the cursor left.

From a UX perspective, the arrow-left icon communicates movement or progression in a leftward direction. It helps users understand that they can navigate back to a previous state, view, or screen, making interfaces more intuitive and user-friendly.

Arrow Left is one of 180 icons in Mono Icons, made by Mono and released under MIT. 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 ArrowLeftIcon to components/icons/mono-icons-arrow-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 ArrowLeftIcon 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 Arrow Left icon, or any of 180 Mono 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="Arrow Left", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ArrowLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ArrowLeftIcon 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. MIT 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: MIT 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 Mono Icons, Mono and the license.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Arrow 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 interface, navigation, action, direction, interactive and previous. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Arrow Left in another set.