Pause

The pause icon represents the action of pausing a video or audio stream. This icon is commonly used in media players and streaming applications to indicate that the content has been paused. The pause icon is an essential control for users to manage their media playback experience.

In software applications like YouTube, Netflix, and Spotify, the pause icon is used to signify that the media playback has been paused. Users can click on the icon to resume playback. This feature is particularly useful for users who want to pause their media consumption and resume it later.

From a UX perspective, the pause icon communicates that the media playback can be controlled. It helps users understand that they can pause or resume playback at any time. The icon's presence in a software application indicates that users have control over their media experience.

Pause is one of 486 icons in Pixelarticons, made by Gerrit Halfmann and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 PauseIcon to components/icons/pixelarticons-pause.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 PauseIcon 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 Pause icon, or any of 486 Pixelarticons 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 24 × 24 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="Pause", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PauseIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PauseIcon 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 Pixelarticons, Gerrit Halfmann 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 Pause. 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, UX, media, control, entertainment and streaming. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pause in another set.