Play Button

The play button icon represents a command to start playing media content, such as a video or audio file. It is commonly used in digital media players and streaming services to initiate playback. The play button is often depicted as a triangle pointing to the right, indicating the start of media playback. In digital interfaces, the play button is usually designed to be easily recognizable and clickable.

The play button icon appears in various software and platforms, including video streaming services like YouTube, Netflix, and Vimeo. It is also used in media players like VLC, Windows Media Player, and QuickTime. In addition, the play button is often used in mobile apps, such as music and video streaming apps like Spotify and TikTok.

From a UX perspective, the play button icon communicates the action of starting media playback. It helps users understand that they can initiate playback by clicking on the button. The play button is often designed to be intuitive and easy to use, making it simple for users to start playing media content.

Play Button 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 PlayButtonIcon to components/icons/twemoji-play-button.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 PlayButtonIcon 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 Play Button 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="Play Button", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. PlayButtonIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <PlayButtonIcon 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.

6 other libraries draw an icon called Play Button. 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 UI, interface, UX, media, control and video. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Play Button 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 Play Button's siblings in it.