Camera Icon Generator

What the camera icon means

Take a photo, or photographic content. Distinct from "image", which means an existing picture.

Media icons are the most universally understood class in computing. A right-pointing triangle means play in every culture and on every platform, and two vertical bars mean pause with no ambiguity at all. That reliability comes from geometric simplicity, which also makes them excellent app icons — they hold together at any size. The trade-off is that a play triangle is claimed by a thousand products, so any distinctiveness must come from the container, colour or an added element.

Where you will actually see it

• profile photo upload controls
• capture buttons in mobile apps
• app icons for photography products

Drawing the camera at 16 pixels

The lens circle inside the body needs clearance from the top viewfinder bump. Shrink the lens rather than the body.

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 { Camera } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Camera :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 media group.