Pictograms

Carbon pictograms are provided through a set of packages allowing the use of pictograms in multiple frameworks. Pictograms are supported in vanilla, React, Angular, and Vue.

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Get started

To install @carbon/pictograms-react in your project, you will need to run the following command using npm:

npm install -S @carbon/pictograms-react

If you prefer Yarn, use the following command instead:

yarn add @carbon/pictograms-react

Usage

You can import a pictogram component into your project by referring to its name:

import { Airplane } from '@carbon/pictograms-react';

We also provide CommonJS and UMD files in the lib and umd directories, respectively.

To import using CommonJS, you can do the following:

const { Airplane } = require('@carbon/pictograms-react');

Note: if you would like to find the import path for a pictogram, you can reference our Pictogram Library

Icon fill

All icons from the library support being styled by the fill property. You can change the color of an icon by passing in a custom class name that sets this property (preferred), or by passing in an inline style. For example:

// CSS custom class name to set the fill of the icon to `rebeccapurple`
svg.my-custom-class {
  fill: rebeccapurple;
}

import { Airplane } from '@carbon/pictograms-react';
function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <button>
      <Airplane aria-label="Add" className="my-custom-class" />
    </button>
  );
}

Focus and `aria-label`

By default, the icon components from @carbon/pictograms-react are treated as decorative content. This means that we set aria-hidden="true" unless certain props are passed to the component.

If you would like the icon to be announced by a screen reader, you can supply an aria-label or aria-labelledby. For example:

import { Airplane } from '@carbon/pictograms-react';
function MyComponent() {
  return (
    <button>
      <Airplane aria-label="Add" />
    </button>
  );
}

Doing this will add the appropriate role to the <svg> node, as well.

If you would like the <svg> to receive focus, you will need to pass in a tabIndex value. For example:

import { Airplane } from '@carbon/pictograms-react';
function MyComponent() {
  return <Airplane aria-label="Add" tabIndex="0" />;
}

Including tabIndex and aria-label (or aria-labelledby) will set the corresponding tabindex on the underlying <svg> and verify support in older browsers like Internet Explorer 11 by setting focusable to true.

Resources

Carbon pictograms package

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Pictograms: Usage