Compose

The compose icon represents the action of creating or writing something, such as an email, message, or document. It originates from the concept of composing a letter or message and is significant in digital communication. The compose icon is often used to indicate the start of a new conversation or document.

In real-world applications, the compose icon appears in email clients like Gmail, messaging apps like WhatsApp, and document editing software like Google Docs. It's used to initiate a new composition or editing process.

From a UX perspective, the compose icon communicates the ability to create or edit content, providing users with a clear call-to-action to start writing or composing. It's often used in conjunction with other icons like send, save, and delete to provide a comprehensive editing experience.

Compose is one of 306 icons in Subway Icon Set, made by Mariusz Ostrowski and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 512 × 512 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 ComposeIcon to components/icons/subway-compose.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 ComposeIcon 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 Compose icon, or any of 306 Subway Icon Set 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 512 × 512 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="Compose", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ComposeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ComposeIcon 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 (Mariusz Ostrowski) 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 Mariusz Ostrowski, 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.

5 other libraries draw an icon called Compose. 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 communication, document, editing, email, writing and messaging. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Compose in another set.