Clock Icon Generator

What the clock icon means

Time, duration or "pending". A clock face reads as a moment; an hourglass reads as elapsed time.

Time icons split into two families that users read differently: a clock face means a moment or a timestamp, while an hourglass or a spinner means elapsed or ongoing duration. Mixing them creates subtle confusion in progress indicators. Their common problem is interior detail — hands, date grids, rings and buttons all sit inside a bounding shape and merge together under downscaling. The rule is to keep the outer silhouette strong and delete interior detail aggressively.

Where you will actually see it

• timestamps and recency indicators
• estimated duration labels
• app icons for time tracking and alarms

Drawing the clock at 16 pixels

The two hands are thin lines meeting at the centre. If they overlap or touch the rim, the clock reads as a plain circle.

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 { Clock } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Clock :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 time group.