Code Icon Generator

What the code icon means

Source code, or a code block. Angle brackets pointing outward are the standard developer shorthand.

Technology icons are the fastest-changing class, because the objects they depict keep being replaced. A monitor with a deep bezel, a floppy disk for save and a handset for phone are all anachronisms that survive purely on convention. As brand marks they work well when abstracted — a chip, a terminal prompt or a cloud is a strong, simple silhouette — and badly when literal, because the internal detail of a real device is exactly what disappears at small sizes.

Where you will actually see it

• code block toolbars
• developer documentation
• app icons for editors and IDEs

Drawing the code at 16 pixels

Two chevrons pointing away from each other. Robust, but keep the gap between them wide or it reads as a single shape.

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 { Code } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Code :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 technology group.