Bug

The bug icon represents software defects and debugging features in development tools and issue tracking systems. Featuring an insect silhouette that references the historical term for computing errors, this symbol indicates bug reports, debugging modes, error states, and issue management across applications where software quality and defect tracking are essential.

In modern applications like GitHub's issue tracker or Jira's bug management system, you'll see this icon categorizing defect reports and tracking software issues. It appears in developer tools when activating debugging modes, or in application monitoring platforms like Sentry when identifying and triaging errors that impact user experience and system stability.

From a software quality perspective, the bug icon communicates more than just 'error' - it specifically indicates trackable defects, the acknowledgment of imperfection, and the systematic approach to software improvement. This debugging metaphor creates a shared language between developers and users for discussing and resolving software issues.

Bug is one of 223 icons in Open Iconic, made by Iconic and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 8 × 8 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 BugIcon to components/icons/oi-bug.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 BugIcon 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 Bug icon, or any of 223 Open Iconic 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 8 × 8 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="Bug", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BugIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BugIcon 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 Open Iconic, Iconic 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 Bug. 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 error, tracking, issue, debugging, bug and debug. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bug in another set.