Navigation Icon Generator

What the navigation icon means

Current heading or "locate me". The tilted arrow is the standard GPS position indicator.

Location icons benefit from one of the strongest conventions on the web: the teardrop pin is now more immediately recognisable as "place" than a map is. That makes it a very safe app icon, and its solid, asymmetric silhouette holds up at any size. The rest of the class is weaker — maps, compasses and buildings all rely on interior detail such as fold lines, needles and window grids that vanish under downscaling.

Where you will actually see it

• recentre-on-me map controls
• turn-by-turn navigation
• app icons for GPS and delivery apps

Drawing the navigation at 16 pixels

A solid arrow with a notched tail. The notch closes first; if it does, the icon still reads as a directional 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 { Navigation } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Navigation :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 location group.