Pensil

The Raphael Pensil icon represents a pencil, a common drawing and writing instrument used for artistic and creative purposes. Pencils are widely used in various professions and daily activities, symbolizing creativity, imagination, and self-expression.

In real-world applications, the Pensil icon appears in various software and platforms, including graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop, illustration software like Sketch, and digital art platforms like DeviantArt. For instance, it may be used as a logo or a button in a drawing or illustration application.

From a UX perspective, the Pensil icon communicates a sense of creativity and artistic expression, helping users understand that a particular feature or function is related to drawing, sketching, or illustration. It can also serve as a navigation aid, guiding users to sections of a website or application that are related to creative activities.

Pensil is one of 266 icons in Raphael, made by Dmitry Baranovskiy and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 32 × 32 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 PensilIcon to components/icons/raphael-pensil.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 PensilIcon 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 Pensil icon, or any of 266 Raphael 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 32 × 32 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="Pensil", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PensilIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PensilIcon 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 Raphael, Dmitry Baranovskiy and the license.

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

Its tags are writing, art, creative, illustration and drawing. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pensil in another set.