Key 16

The key-16 icon represents a small key, commonly used to symbolize access, security, or password management in compact spaces. This icon is often used in digital products to represent authentication, authorization, or encryption in limited screen real estate. The key icon is widely used in various domains, including software development, cybersecurity, and online services.

In software and platforms, the key-16 icon appears in tools like password managers, authentication services, and security software. This icon is also used in web applications, such as online banking or e-commerce websites, to represent secure access or password protection.

From a UX perspective, the key-16 icon communicates to users that there are security or access-related features available in a compact format. It helps users understand that they need to authenticate or authorize to access certain functionality or data.

Key 16 is one of 901 icons in Octicons, made by GitHub 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 Key16Icon to components/icons/octicon-key-16.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 Key16Icon 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 Key 16 icon, or any of 901 Octicons 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="Key 16", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. Key16Icon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <Key16Icon 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 Octicons, GitHub and the license.

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

Its tags are UI, security, authentication, access, password and encryption. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Key 16 in another set.

Octicons draws many icons in several styles: Fill next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Key 16's siblings in it.