Gear

The gear icon represents a settings or configuration option in a user interface. It is commonly used to indicate that a user can adjust or configure settings related to the application, tool, or feature.

In software applications like Microsoft Windows, macOS, or web applications, the gear icon is frequently used to provide access to settings or configuration options. This helps users customize their experience, adjust preferences, or configure features to suit their needs. For instance, in a social media platform, the gear icon might be used to access account settings.

From a UX perspective, the gear icon communicates the ability to customize and configure the application or feature. It aids users in understanding that they can adjust settings to suit their preferences, making it easier for them to use the application. By providing a clear visual cue for settings, this icon supports users in configuring their experience.

Gear is one of 342 icons in Radix Icons, made by WorkOS and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 15 × 15 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/radix-icons-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.

Yes, if your project has @radix-ui/react-icons: Gear is `GearIcon` there, used as <GearIcon />. The shadcn.io MCP server answers with that import when it finds the package. Without it, copy the icon from here.

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 342 Radix Icons 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 15 × 15 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. 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 Radix Icons, WorkOS 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 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, interface, settings, web, configuration and application. 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.