External link icon

A free pencil-style external link icon, drawn by code from 2 polylines and 1 line. Use it as an SVG, a React component, or by name. MIT licensed.

external-link

01Use it

Use external-link

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

<ExternalLink size={24} />

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

JavaScript

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

toSvg(ExternalLink, { 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-external-link" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M18.69 12.67Q18.39 16.12 18.43 19.58Q11.56 19.3 4.69 19.65Q4.69 12.59 4.31 5.54Q7.89 5.7 11.46 5.36" stroke-width="1.76"/><path d="M14.07 4.23Q17.02 4.05 19.96 3.8Q19.93 6.7 20.12 9.6" stroke-width="1.792"/><path d="M20.18 3.83Q15.1 8.16 10.62 13.09" stroke-width="1.568"/></svg>

Pencil variant

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

<ExternalLink size={32} pencil />

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

02How it's drawn

The recipe for external-link

External link is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of 2 polylines and 1 line 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 18.5 13 18.5 19.5 4.5 19.5 4.5 5.5 11 5.5;
P 14.5 4 20 4 20 9.5;
L 20 4 11 13
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 external-link. Seed 0 is the default.

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

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil