Coffee Icon Generator

What the coffee icon means

A cafe, a break, or a small donation ("buy me a coffee"). The steam lines carry the "hot" meaning.

Food icons are unusually literal: a coffee cup means coffee, a slice means pizza, and there is very little metaphorical reach in the category. That directness makes them effective for delivery, restaurant and recipe products, where users are scanning categories rather than decoding symbols. The technical difficulty is that food icons carry small repeated details — steam curls, toppings, seeds — that turn into speckle when scaled down. Remove them and keep the vessel or outline.

Where you will actually see it

• cafe and restaurant listings
• support and tipping links
• app icons for cafe and break-timer apps

Drawing the coffee at 16 pixels

The steam curls above the cup are thin and short. Drop them; the cup-and-handle silhouette is enough.

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 { Coffee } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Coffee :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 food group.