Layers Icon Generator

What the layers icon means

Stacked elements, z-order, or grouped data. In maps it means overlays; in design tools it means the layer panel.

Creative-tool icons depict physical instruments — brushes, pens, palettes, scissors — and physical instruments have handles, ferrules, bristles and blades that are all fine detail. This class therefore degrades faster than almost any other. The practical approach is to keep the overall silhouette and delete everything internal: a tapered shape reads as a brush without bristles, and a diagonal with a blunt point reads as a pen without a nib. Solid-filled versions consistently outperform outlined ones here.

Where you will actually see it

• design tool layer panels
• map overlay controls
• app icons for design and GIS software

Drawing the layers at 16 pixels

Three stacked diamonds separated by thin gaps. The gaps close and it becomes a solid rhombus; use two layers instead of three.

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 { Layers } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Layers :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 creative group.