Briefcase

The briefcase icon represents a professional's work or career, often symbolizing business, office work, or employment. It originates from the concept of a portable case used to carry important documents and work materials. In various contexts, the briefcase icon is used to represent professionalism, work-related activities, and career development.

In software and digital platforms, the briefcase icon is commonly used in productivity apps, job search platforms, and professional networking sites. For instance, it may appear in a navigation menu to indicate a section for work projects, tasks, or resume building. Popular platforms like LinkedIn, Trello, and Asana use similar icons to represent their services.

From a UX perspective, the briefcase icon communicates a sense of professionalism, responsibility, and work ethic. When users see this icon, they expect to find features related to job searching, career development, or work management. It helps users understand that they can access tools and resources to manage their professional life.

Briefcase is one of 200 icons in Icons8 Windows 8 Icons, made by Icons8 and released under MIT. It is drawn on a 26 × 26 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 BriefcaseIcon to components/icons/wpf-briefcase.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 BriefcaseIcon 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 Briefcase icon, or any of 200 Icons8 Windows 8 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 26 × 26 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="Briefcase", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. BriefcaseIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <BriefcaseIcon 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. MIT 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: MIT 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 Icons8 Windows 8 Icons, Icons8 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 Briefcase. 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 business, office, work, professional, job and career. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Briefcase in another set.