Stethoscope Icon Generator

What the stethoscope icon means

Medical care or a clinician. Instantly signals "doctor" in a way that a cross or heart does not.

Health icons need to be read correctly under stress, which raises the bar on clarity. The class divides into clinical symbols, which signal professional care, and wellness symbols, which signal self-directed activity — and users treat those two groups quite differently. Most of these icons are detail-heavy, combining an outer form with an interior mark, so at small sizes it is usually better to keep the outer shape alone than to preserve a pulse line or a cross inside it.

Where you will actually see it

• telemedicine and appointment booking
• clinician-facing tools
• app icons for medical products

Drawing the stethoscope at 16 pixels

Long thin tubing plus a small chest piece. This is a detail-heavy icon that needs 32px minimum.

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 { Stethoscope } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Stethoscope :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 health group.