Microscope

The microscope icon represents a scientific instrument used to magnify and observe small objects, symbolizing scientific research and experimentation. It originated from early scientific discoveries and has become a ubiquitous symbol in biology, chemistry, and other scientific fields. The icon is widely used in laboratory settings, research papers, and educational materials to represent the act of observation or analysis.

In software applications, the microscope icon appears in platforms like laboratory information management systems, scientific simulations, and educational software, where users can analyze and observe scientific data. It is often used alongside other icons like beakers, test tubes, or petri dishes to provide a comprehensive scientific experience.

From a UX perspective, the microscope icon communicates the functionality of observing or analyzing scientific data, helping users understand how to interact with the interface. It can also be used to indicate the presence of scientific tools or features.

Microscope is one of 1,216 icons in Unicons, made by Iconscout and released under Apache 2.0. 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 MicroscopeIcon to components/icons/uil-microscope.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 MicroscopeIcon 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 Microscope icon, or any of 1,216 Unicons 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="Microscope", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. MicroscopeIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <MicroscopeIcon 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 Unicons, Iconscout 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 Microscope. 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 science, research, biology, lab, chemistry and experiment. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Microscope in another set.