Settings Icon Generator

What the settings icon means

Configuration for the current context. The gear implies system-level preferences rather than per-item options.

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

• account and preference screens
• admin dashboards
• app icons for configuration and devops tools

Drawing the settings at 16 pixels

Gear teeth merge into a circle below about 20px. If the icon needs to work at 16px, use a slider icon instead.

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 { Settings } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Settings :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.