Compose

The compose icon represents the action of creating or writing something. It is commonly used in digital communication to symbolize the act of composing a message or document. The icon originates from the idea of writing or creating content.

In real-world applications, the compose icon appears in email clients like Gmail, messaging apps like WhatsApp, and blogging platforms like WordPress. It is used to indicate the creation of new content.

From a UX perspective, the compose icon communicates the ability to create and express oneself. It helps users understand that they can write and send messages or create new content.

Compose is one of 4,481 icons in OpenMoji, made by OpenMoji and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is drawn on a 72 × 72 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 ComposeIcon to components/icons/openmoji-compose.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 ComposeIcon 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 Compose icon, or any of 4,481 OpenMoji icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 72 × 72 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Compose", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ComposeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ComposeIcon 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, with conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (OpenMoji), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit OpenMoji, and icons you change must be shared under the same license.

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

6 other libraries draw an icon called Compose. 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 document, message, edit, email, create and write. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Compose in another set.

OpenMoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Compose's siblings in it.