Menu Icon Generator

What the menu icon means

Reveal navigation that is currently hidden — the "hamburger". It means more options exist, not settings.

Navigation icons carry more weight than any other class, because users hit them constantly and often without reading the label. That makes convention non-negotiable: a house means home everywhere, a magnifier means search everywhere, and inventing a novel shape for a navigation slot costs real usability. When one of these becomes an app icon it inherits that recognition, which is an advantage — but it also means the icon alone will not distinguish your product from every other product using the same shape. The background colour and container do that work.

Where you will actually see it

• mobile headers
• collapsed desktop sidebars
• kiosk and TV interfaces

Drawing the menu at 16 pixels

Three horizontal bars are the most robust icon shape there is, but on a non-integer pixel grid the middle bar can blur. Use even stroke widths.

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 { Menu } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Menu :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 navigation group.