Paperclip

The paperclip icon represents a paperclip, a small metal clip used to hold together multiple sheets of paper. The paperclip has been a ubiquitous office supply item for decades and is often used as a symbol for attachment or linking.

In digital contexts, the paperclip icon is commonly used to represent file attachments or links to external resources. It appears in email clients, messaging apps, and document management systems like Gmail, Outlook, and Google Drive.

From a UX perspective, the paperclip icon communicates the idea of attachment or addition. It helps users understand that they can add files or links to their messages or documents.

Paperclip 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 PaperclipIcon to components/icons/pepicons-pencil-paperclip.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 PaperclipIcon 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 Paperclip 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="Paperclip", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PaperclipIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PaperclipIcon 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 Paperclip. 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 file, document, office, link, attachment and clip. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Paperclip 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 Paperclip's siblings in it.