Back Arrow

The back arrow icon represents a directional symbol used for navigation, indicating a return to a previous page or state. It is commonly used in digital interfaces to provide users with an easy way to navigate backward. The back arrow is an essential element in user interface (UI) design, promoting a sense of control and flexibility for users.

In software applications and websites, the back arrow icon appears in toolbars, navigation menus, and other interactive elements. For example, in a web browser, the back arrow button allows users to return to a previously visited webpage. Similarly, in mobile apps, the back arrow often appears at the top of the screen, enabling users to navigate back to the previous screen or menu.

From a UX perspective, the back arrow icon communicates a sense of reversal or undoing an action. It helps users understand that they can return to a previous state or page, which can reduce anxiety and make users more likely to explore different parts of an application or website. The icon's familiarity and widespread use make it easily recognizable and intuitive to use.

Back Arrow is one of 2,162 icons in Noto Emoji (v1), made by Google Inc and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 128 × 128 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 BackArrowIcon to components/icons/noto-v1-back-arrow.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 BackArrowIcon 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 Back Arrow icon, or any of 2,162 Noto Emoji (v1) icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 128 × 128 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Back Arrow", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BackArrowIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BackArrowIcon 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 Noto Emoji (v1), Google Inc 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 Back Arrow. 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 UI, interface, design, UX, navigation and action. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Back Arrow in another set.

Noto Emoji (v1) draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Back Arrow's siblings in it.