History Icon Generator

What the history icon means

Past activity, version history or undo-over-time. The counter-clockwise arrow implies going backward.

Time icons split into two families that users read differently: a clock face means a moment or a timestamp, while an hourglass or a spinner means elapsed or ongoing duration. Mixing them creates subtle confusion in progress indicators. Their common problem is interior detail — hands, date grids, rings and buttons all sit inside a bounding shape and merge together under downscaling. The rule is to keep the outer silhouette strong and delete interior detail aggressively.

Where you will actually see it

• recently viewed lists
• version and revision history
• app icons for backup and audit tools

Drawing the history at 16 pixels

A clock face plus a wrapping arrow is two shapes competing for the same square. Drop the clock hands and keep the arrow.

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 { History } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<History :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 time group.