Database Icon Generator

What the database icon means

Persistent structured storage. The stacked-cylinder drawing comes from physical disk packs and has outlived them entirely.

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

• infrastructure diagrams
• data source pickers
• app icons for database clients and ORMs

Drawing the database at 16 pixels

Three stacked ellipses collapse into a striped rectangle. Two segments read better than three below 24px.

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 { Database } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Database :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.