Delete

The delete icon represents a removal or discard action, often used to signify deletion or recycling of data or objects. It is commonly used in software and web development to create interactive elements like trash bins, recycle folders, and delete buttons. The delete symbol has been widely used to facilitate data management and cleanup.

In digital design, the delete icon is commonly used in platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Windows File Explorer, where users manage and delete files. It can also be found in software like Microsoft Outlook, where users delete emails and attachments.

From a UX perspective, the delete icon communicates a sense of caution and finality. It warns users that their actions are irreversible and encourages them to confirm their decisions.

Delete 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 DeleteIcon to components/icons/topcoat-delete.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 DeleteIcon 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 Delete 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="Delete", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. DeleteIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <DeleteIcon 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 Delete. 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 action, interaction, delete, remove, recycle and discard. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Delete in another set.