Exploding Head

The exploding head icon represents a shocked or amazed reaction, often used to express surprise or astonishment. It is a popular emoji used in digital communication to convey a strong emotional response.

In digital platforms, the exploding head icon may appear in chat applications, social media posts, or comments to express a user's reaction to unexpected news or events. For example, it may be used to respond to surprising announcements or shocking revelations.

From a UX perspective, the exploding head icon effectively communicates a user's emotional state, adding a touch of personality and humor to digital interactions. It can help users express themselves in a more engaging and relatable way.

Exploding Head is one of 787 icons in Streamline Emojis, made by Streamline and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 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 ExplodingHeadIcon to components/icons/streamline-emojis-exploding-head.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 ExplodingHeadIcon 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 Exploding Head icon, or any of 787 Streamline Emojis icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 48 × 48 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Exploding Head", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ExplodingHeadIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ExplodingHeadIcon 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 (Streamline) 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 Streamline, 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.

1 other library draws an icon called Exploding Head. 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 emoji, fun, reaction, surprise and shock. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Exploding Head in another set.