Paintbrush Icon Generator

What the paintbrush icon means

Drawing, styling or applying a format. In editors it often means "format painter" specifically.

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

• drawing tool palettes
• theme customisation entry points
• app icons for painting and design apps

Drawing the paintbrush at 16 pixels

The ferrule band between handle and bristles is a fine detail. Drop it and keep the tapered silhouette.

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 { Paintbrush } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Paintbrush :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.