Pencil 2

The pencil-2 icon represents a writing or editing tool, often used in digital interfaces to signify the ability to modify or create content. This icon is part of the Kameleon color icons library, designed by Streamline. The pencil symbol has been widely used across various applications to indicate editing or writing capabilities.

In software applications, the pencil icon is commonly used in text editors, design tools, and other interfaces where users need to create or modify content. For instance, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and Figma use similar pencil icons to indicate editing capabilities.

From a UX perspective, the pencil icon communicates the ability to modify or create content, making it an intuitive symbol for users to interact with digital interfaces. When users see the pencil icon, they understand that they can edit or create content.

Pencil 2 is one of 400 icons in Kameleon color icons, 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 Pencil2Icon to components/icons/streamline-kameleon-color-pencil-2.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 Pencil2Icon 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 Pencil 2 icon, or any of 400 Kameleon color icons 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="Pencil 2", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. Pencil2Icon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <Pencil2Icon 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 Pencil 2. 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, design, UX, multicolor, edit and writing. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Pencil 2 in another set.