Heart Icon Generator

What the heart icon means

Affection, favouriting, or "like". A filled heart is the active state; outlined is inactive — this convention is near-universal.

Abstract symbols do not depict anything; they mean something by pure convention. A heart, a flag, a bolt and a bulb carry meanings that have no physical basis and have to be learned — which is why they are so stable once learned. They make good app icons because their silhouettes are simple, closed and asymmetric. The risk is cultural: several symbols in this class carry different or offensive meanings outside Western contexts, so check before shipping globally.

Where you will actually see it

• favourite and save actions
• health and wellbeing products
• app icons for dating, charity and community brands

Drawing the heart at 16 pixels

The cleft at the top is the recognisable feature and it fills in first. Make it deeper than feels right at design size.

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 { Heart } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Heart :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 symbols group.