Desc

The desc icon represents a description or a detailed explanation of an element in a user interface. It is often used in software applications to provide users with additional information about a particular feature or function. The icon's design typically features a simple and recognizable symbol that conveys the idea of explanation or elaboration. This icon is essential in UI design as it helps users understand complex concepts or features.

In software applications like Figma, Notion, or documentation tools, the desc icon is commonly used to provide users with tooltips, hints, or brief explanations of UI elements. For instance, when users hover over a button or a menu item, a desc icon might appear to offer a short description of what the element does. This helps users quickly understand the functionality of the element and makes the interface more intuitive.

From a UX perspective, the desc icon communicates the availability of additional information about a UI element. When users see this icon, they understand that they can access more details about the element by interacting with it. This helps reduce user confusion and makes the interface more user-friendly. The desc icon can also be used to provide context or clarify complex concepts, making it easier for users to navigate the interface.

Desc is one of 824 icons in Pico-icon, made by Picon Contributors and released under Open Font License. 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 DescIcon to components/icons/picon-desc.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 DescIcon 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 Desc icon, or any of 824 Pico-icon 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="Desc", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. DescIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <DescIcon 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. The Open Font License allows commercial use; the icons can't be sold on their own. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

No visible credit is required: Open Font License 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 Pico-icon, Picon Contributors and the license.

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

Its tags are UI, interface, element, grid, mixed and other. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Desc in another set.