Matita/icons

Chevron left icon

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

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chevron-left

01Use it

Use chevron-left

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 { ChevronLeft } from '@matita/icons/react';

<ChevronLeft size={24} />

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

JavaScript

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

toSvg(ChevronLeft, { 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-left" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M15.34 5.19Q12.01 8.71 8.63 12.18Q11.92 15.45 15.24 18.7" stroke-width="1.488"/></svg>

Pencil variant

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

<ChevronLeft size={32} pencil />

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

02How it's drawn

The recipe for chevron-left

Chevron left 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 15 5.5 8.5 12 15 18.5
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-left. Seed 0 is the default.

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

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil