Bar Chart Icon Generator

What the bar chart icon means

Comparison across categories, or analytics in general. The default "reports" icon in most admin products.

Chart icons are built from thin lines and narrow gutters, which makes them one of the weakest classes at small sizes. A three-bar chart with equal gutters becomes a solid rectangle at 16 pixels, and a line chart with axes becomes a smudge. If you need a data icon as a brand mark, use fewer elements than feels right — two bars rather than four, a trend line without axes — and consider filling the shapes rather than outlining them.

Where you will actually see it

• analytics navigation items
• report and export screens
• app icons for BI and reporting tools

Drawing the bar chart at 16 pixels

Three or four bars separated by thin gaps. Use three bars maximum, and keep gaps equal to bar width.

Stroke weight is the control that matters most here. Lucide icons are drawn on a 24 × 24 grid with a 2px stroke, which means that when the icon is scaled down to 16px the stroke is effectively 1.33px — below one device pixel on a standard-density display. Raising the stroke to 2.5 or 3 before exporting keeps the shape solid; lowering it to 1.5 suits large app icons where a heavy stroke looks clumsy. The editor exposes this as a slider, so you can find the value that survives your smallest target size rather than guessing.

Using it in code

If you want the icon in a Vue project rather than as a downloaded asset, it is a named export of the lucide package:

import { ChartColumn } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<ChartColumn :size="24" :stroke-width="2" />

The download button above gives you something different: the icon composed onto a background with a corner radius, exported as a flat SVG path set. The exporter converts the icon out of its <foreignObject> wrapper first, because a foreign object taints an HTML canvas and would otherwise break PNG and ICO rasterisation.

Related icons

Other icons in the data group.