Arrow Left

The arrow-left icon represents a directional symbol used to indicate movement or navigation to the left. It is commonly used in user interfaces to suggest actions like going back or returning to a previous state. The arrow-left icon has its roots in early GUI design, where it denoted backward navigation.

In real-world applications, the arrow-left icon appears in various digital products, such as web browsers and file explorers, where it allows users to navigate back to previous pages or directories. For instance, on a mobile app, an arrow-left icon might be used to enable users to return to a previous screen or to cancel an action.

From a UX perspective, the arrow-left icon communicates reversal or return. It helps users understand that they can revert their actions or return to a familiar state, enhancing their sense of control and navigation within an interface.

Arrow Left is one of 89 icons in TopCoat Icons, made by TopCoat and released under Apache 2.0. It is drawn on a 42 × 42 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 ArrowLeftIcon to components/icons/topcoat-arrow-left.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 ArrowLeftIcon 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 Arrow Left icon, or any of 89 TopCoat 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 42 × 42 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="Arrow Left", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ArrowLeftIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ArrowLeftIcon 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. Apache 2.0 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: Apache 2.0 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 TopCoat Icons, TopCoat and the license.

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

8 other libraries draw an icon called Arrow Left. 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 interface, design, UX, navigation and direction. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Arrow Left in another set.