Bars Fade

The bars-fade icon represents a loading animation featuring vertical bars that fade in and out sequentially, reminiscent of audio equalizer displays. This distinctive pattern creates visual interest while effectively communicating ongoing processing through rhythmic opacity changes.

In audio applications like Spotify or SoundCloud and media processing tools, you'll see this bars animation during audio loading and playback buffer operations. It appears in music player interfaces and audio processing applications where the equalizer-style bars create thematic consistency with audio-related functionality.

From an audio-visual perspective, the fading bars communicate more than just loading status - they specifically indicate media processing, audio buffer activity, and rhythm-based operations. The vertical bar pattern evokes audio waveforms and equalizer displays, reinforcing audio-related context through visual design.

Bars Fade is one of 46 icons in SVG Spinners, made by Utkarsh Verma and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 24 × 24 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 BarsFadeIcon to components/icons/svg-spinners-bars-fade.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 BarsFadeIcon 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 Bars Fade icon, or any of 46 SVG Spinners 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 24 × 24 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="Bars Fade", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BarsFadeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BarsFadeIcon 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 SVG Spinners, Utkarsh Verma and the license.

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

Its tags are media, audio, loading, vertical, bars and equalizer. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bars Fade in another set.