Scissors

The scissors icon represents a pair of scissors, commonly used as a symbol for cutting or editing. This icon is widely recognized as a universal symbol for editing or trimming content. The scissors icon has been used in various forms of media and software to indicate the ability to cut or edit.

In real-world applications, the scissors icon appears in various software and platforms such as image editing software like Adobe Photoshop, video editing software like Adobe Premiere, and document editing software like Microsoft Word. It is often used to enable users to easily edit and manipulate content.

From a UX perspective, the scissors icon communicates the ability to edit or cut content, allowing users to modify and refine their work. It helps users understand that they can trim or edit content to achieve their desired outcome.

Scissors is one of 336 icons in Typicons, made by Stephen Hutchings and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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 ScissorsIcon to components/icons/typcn-scissors.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 ScissorsIcon 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 Scissors icon, or any of 336 Typicons 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="Scissors", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. ScissorsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <ScissorsIcon 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 conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Stephen Hutchings), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit Stephen Hutchings, and icons you change must be shared under the same 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 Scissors. 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 icon, editing, tool, utility and cutting. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Scissors in another set.

Typicons draws many icons in several styles: Outline next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Scissors's siblings in it.