Upload

The upload icon represents the action of transferring data or files from a local device to a remote server. The upload icon is widely used in software applications to allow users to share files and data with others.

In software applications, the upload icon is often used in file sharing platforms, such as Google Drive and Dropbox. For example, in file sharing platforms, the upload icon is used to allow users to upload files to the cloud.

From a UX perspective, the upload icon communicates the ability to share files and data with others. It helps users understand that an application or website allows them to transfer data to a remote server.

Upload is one of 140 icons in Nimbus, made by Linkedstore S.A. and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 16 × 16 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 UploadIcon to components/icons/nimbus-upload.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 UploadIcon 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 Upload icon, or any of 140 Nimbus 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 16 × 16 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="Upload", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. UploadIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <UploadIcon 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 Nimbus, Linkedstore S.A. 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 Upload. 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 file, data, storage, cloud and transfer. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Upload in another set.