Cog

The cog icon represents settings, configuration, and system preferences in application interfaces and control panels. Featuring a gear or cogwheel design, this universal symbol indicates access to settings menus, configuration options, preference panels, and customization features across applications where user control over system behavior is provided.

In modern applications like mobile device settings or web application preferences, you'll see this icon accessing configuration interfaces and system controls. It appears in user account menus when managing profile settings, or in software applications when adjusting application behavior, performance parameters, and personalization options.

From a user empowerment perspective, the cog icon communicates more than just 'settings' - it specifically indicates user control, the ability to customize experiences, and the technical adjustments that shape application behavior. This mechanical metaphor suggests the inner workings users can adjust to optimize their experience.

Cog 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 CogIcon to components/icons/oi-cog.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 CogIcon 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 Cog 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="Cog", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. CogIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <CogIcon 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 Cog. 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 settings, configuration, options, controls, gear and preferences. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Cog in another set.