Graduation Cap

The graduation cap icon represents academic achievement and education. It symbolizes the completion of a degree or course, and is often used in educational software and platforms.

In real-world applications, this icon appears in learning management systems, online courses, and educational websites. For example, it can be found in platforms like Udemy, Coursera, or edX, where users interact with educational content.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates a sense of accomplishment and achievement. It helps users understand that they have completed a course or degree, and can provide a sense of pride and satisfaction.

Graduation Cap is one of 1,499 icons in Plump free icons, made by Streamline and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 48 × 48 grid with a 3 stroke.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds GraduationCapIcon to components/icons/streamline-plump-graduation-cap.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 GraduationCapIcon 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 Graduation Cap icon, or any of 1,499 Plump free 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 48 × 48 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation, and its stroke.

Graduation Cap is a line icon drawn with a stroke width of 3. Change it in Customize before you copy, or pass strokeWidth to the installed component when all of its strokes share one width.

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="Graduation Cap", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. GraduationCapIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <GraduationCapIcon 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.

8 other libraries draw an icon called Graduation Cap. 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, education, learning, academic and graduation. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Graduation Cap in another set.

Plump free icons draws many icons in several styles: Solid next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Graduation Cap's siblings in it.