Folder Icon Generator

What the folder icon means

A container that groups other items. Universally understood, and one of the oldest surviving skeuomorphs in computing.

File and document icons are near-universally understood, because the page-with-a-folded-corner metaphor has been consistent since the first graphical desktops. Their weakness is that the whole class looks alike: a document, a note, a report and an invoice all reduce to a rectangle with a corner cut. If you need one as a brand mark, exaggerate whichever detail distinguishes yours — the fold, the tab, the zigzag edge — well past realistic proportions.

Where you will actually see it

• file browsers and tree views
• project and workspace grouping
• app icons for storage and organisation tools

Drawing the folder at 16 pixels

The tab at the top-left is what separates a folder from a rectangle. Keep it at least a fifth of the total width.

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 { Folder } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Folder :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 files group.