Video Icon Generator

What the video icon means

Video content or a video call. The camcorder shape distinguishes it from a play button, which means playback.

Media icons are the most universally understood class in computing. A right-pointing triangle means play in every culture and on every platform, and two vertical bars mean pause with no ambiguity at all. That reliability comes from geometric simplicity, which also makes them excellent app icons — they hold together at any size. The trade-off is that a play triangle is claimed by a thousand products, so any distinctiveness must come from the container, colour or an added element.

Where you will actually see it

• video call controls
• media upload types
• app icons for conferencing and video editing

Drawing the video at 16 pixels

The lens wedge on the side is what makes it a camcorder. If it merges with the body, the icon reads as a plain rectangle.

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 { Video } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Video :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 media group.