Gear

The gear icon represents settings or configuration options within an application or system. It originated from mechanical devices and signifies the idea of adjusting or fine-tuning. The gear icon is widely recognized and used across various platforms.

In real-world applications, the gear icon appears in software related to system settings, preferences, or configuration. For instance, Google Chrome's browser settings use a gear icon to represent configuration options. Similarly, a project management tool like Trello might utilize this icon to signify board settings.

From a UX perspective, the gear icon communicates a sense of control and customization. It helps users quickly identify sections focused on adjusting settings or preferences within an application. This icon can enhance user engagement by providing easy access to configuration options.

Gear is one of 1,275 icons in Pepicons Pencil, made by CyCraft and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 20 × 20 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 GearIcon to components/icons/pepicons-pencil-gear.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 GearIcon 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 Gear icon, or any of 1,275 Pepicons Pencil 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 20 × 20 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="Gear", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GearIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GearIcon 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 credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (CyCraft) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by CyCraft, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Gear. 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 UI, design, icon, control, settings and configuration. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Gear in another set.

Pepicons Pencil draws many icons in several styles: Filled next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Gear's siblings in it.