Star Icon Generator

What the star icon means

Rating, quality or bookmarking. In review contexts it is quantitative; in navigation it means "favourite".

Abstract symbols do not depict anything; they mean something by pure convention. A heart, a flag, a bolt and a bulb carry meanings that have no physical basis and have to be learned — which is why they are so stable once learned. They make good app icons because their silhouettes are simple, closed and asymmetric. The risk is cultural: several symbols in this class carry different or offensive meanings outside Western contexts, so check before shipping globally.

Where you will actually see it

• review and rating widgets
• featured and highlighted content
• app icons for reviews, awards and premium tiers

Drawing the star at 16 pixels

Five sharp points against a background all become rounded nubs. A star reads as a blob below 16px unless it is solid-filled.

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 { Star } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Star :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 symbols group.