Play Circle

The play-circle icon represents media playback initiation within a circular button design, combining play functionality with contained visual styling. Featuring a play triangle enclosed in a circle, this icon indicates video or audio playback start, media activation, content launch, and playback controls across platforms where media consumption is supported.

In modern applications like YouTube video players or music streaming on Spotify, you'll see this icon starting media playback and initiating content consumption. It appears in video thumbnails when launching playback, or in podcast apps when beginning episode playback and activating audio content.

From a media interaction perspective, the circular play symbol communicates more than just 'start' - it specifically indicates a prominent action button, the contained design that emphasizes clickability, and the primary media control that distinguishes playback initiation from other player functions. This encircled triangle metaphor represents primary playback action.

Play Circle 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 PlayCircleIcon to components/icons/oi-play-circle.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 PlayCircleIcon 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 Play Circle 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="Play Circle", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PlayCircleIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PlayCircleIcon 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 Play Circle. 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 media, video, audio, playback, circle and play. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Play Circle in another set.