Bars Scale Middle

The bars-scale-middle icon features vertical bars that scale from the center outward, creating a symmetrical loading animation. This balanced pattern provides visually harmonious loading feedback that naturally draws the eye to the center point.

In centered content interfaces and modal loading states like those in photo galleries or video players, you'll see this center-scaling animation during content loading. It appears in media viewers and centered layout systems where the symmetric animation complements centered content presentation.

From a visual balance perspective, the center-scaling bars communicate more than just loading status - they specifically indicate centered operations, symmetric processing, and balanced system activity. The outward scaling from center suggests content emergence and coordinated bilateral processing.

Bars Scale Middle 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 BarsScaleMiddleIcon to components/icons/svg-spinners-bars-scale-middle.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 BarsScaleMiddleIcon 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 Scale Middle 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 Scale Middle", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BarsScaleMiddleIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BarsScaleMiddleIcon 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 loading, scale, balanced, bars and middle. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Bars Scale Middle in another set.