Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone

The backhand-index-pointing-left-medium-skin-tone icon represents a hand gesture with the index finger pointing to the left, commonly used to convey a sense of 'pointing' or 'direction'. This emoji is part of the Twitter Emoji library and is used to express a range of emotions and provide visual cues in digital communication. The medium skin tone variation is one of several skin tone options available for this icon.

In digital communication, this icon can be used in various software and platforms, such as social media, messaging apps, and online forums, to add tone and personality to text-based conversations. For example, it can be used to point to a specific location or direction, or to indicate a link or reference to another part of a conversation.

From a UX perspective, this icon helps users understand the direction or location being referred to, allowing them to quickly grasp the context of a conversation. The use of a medium skin tone also helps to promote diversity and inclusivity in digital communication.

Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone is one of 4,169 icons in Twitter Emoji, made by Twitter and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 36 × 36 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 BackhandIndexPointingLeftMediumSkinToneIcon to components/icons/twemoji-backhand-index-pointing-left-medium-skin-tone.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 BackhandIndexPointingLeftMediumSkinToneIcon 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 Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone icon, or any of 4,169 Twitter Emoji icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 36 × 36 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. 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="Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BackhandIndexPointingLeftMediumSkinToneIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BackhandIndexPointingLeftMediumSkinToneIcon 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 (Twitter) 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 Twitter, 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.

Its tags are emoji, gesture, skin tone, hand, twitter and pointing. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone in another set.

Twitter Emoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Backhand Index Pointing Left Medium Skin Tone's siblings in it.