Matita/icons

Chevron down icon

A free pencil-style chevron down icon, drawn by code from 1 polyline. Use it as an SVG, a React component, or by name. MIT licensed.

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01Use it

Use chevron-down

One package, four ways in. The icon inherits currentColor and is decorative unless you give it a title. Install it with npm i @matita/icons.

React

import { ChevronDown } from '@matita/icons/react';

<ChevronDown size={24} />

// or by name
import { SketchIcon } from '@matita/icons/react';
<SketchIcon name="chevron-down" />

JavaScript

import { ChevronDown, toSvg } from '@matita/icons';

toSvg(ChevronDown, { size: 24 });   // SVG string

SVG

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 24 24" width="24" height="24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="1.6" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" overflow="visible" class="sketch-icon sketch-icon-chevron-down" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M5.45 8.75Q8.47 12.27 11.94 15.35Q15.15 11.68 18.85 8.52" stroke-width="1.408"/></svg>

Pencil variant

import '@matita/icons/pencil.css';
import { ChevronDown } from '@matita/icons/react';

<ChevronDown size={32} pencil />

The file is icons/chevron-down.svg in the package (pencil/chevron-down.svg for the pencil variant). Matita 0.2.1.

02How it's drawn

The recipe for chevron-down

Chevron down is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of 1 polyline on a 24 by 24 grid, and a small program draws it like a pencil would. The wobble comes from the name, so it always comes out the same.

A · Recipe
P 5.5 9 12 15.5 18.5 9
B · Plotted
C · Drawn
How it works

03Takes, sizes, pencil

Same icon, every way

Pass a seed for another take of the same recipe. The wobble is capped, so it still reads at 16 px.

seed 0
seed 1
seed 2
seed 3
seed 4

Five seeds of chevron-down. Seed 0 is the default.

16 px
20 px
24 px
32 px
48 px
96 px

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil