Wrench Icon Generator

What the wrench icon means

Maintenance, repair or advanced settings. Often signals "developer tools" or a debug menu.

Tool icons signal maintenance, configuration or building, and in software they have drifted away from their literal meanings — a wrench now usually opens a settings panel rather than fixing anything. They are angular and mostly solid, which makes them reasonably robust at small sizes, but their identifying features are often small notches and openings. A wrench with a closed jaw or a screwdriver without a tip reads as a plain diagonal bar.

Where you will actually see it

• maintenance mode indicators
• advanced and developer settings
• app icons for repair and devtool products

Drawing the wrench at 16 pixels

The open jaw at the head is a small notch. If it closes the wrench reads as a plain diagonal bar.

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 { Wrench } from 'lucide-vue-next'

<Wrench :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 tools group.