Layers

The layers icon represents layer management, stacked elements, and z-index ordering in design and layout applications. Featuring stacked squares or overlapping shapes, this icon indicates layer panels, stacking order, element layering, and depth management across platforms where visual hierarchy and layer control are essential.

In modern applications like Figma or Photoshop, you'll see this icon accessing layer panels and managing element stacking. It appears in design tools when organizing visual elements, or in map applications like Google Maps when controlling overlay layers and data visualization stacking.

From a design perspective, the layers symbol communicates more than just 'stack' - it specifically indicates z-index control, the visual depth that creates hierarchy, and the layering system that enables complex composition. This stacking metaphor connects to the physical concept of layered transparency sheets.

Layers 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 LayersIcon to components/icons/oi-layers.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 LayersIcon 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 Layers 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="Layers", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. LayersIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <LayersIcon 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 Layers. 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 hierarchy, order, stack, layers and depth. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Layers in another set.