Hourglass icon

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

hourglass

01Use it

Use hourglass

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

<Hourglass size={24} />

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

JavaScript

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

toSvg(Hourglass, { 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-hourglass" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M5.15 3.59Q11.95 3.5 18.75 3.52" stroke-width="1.712"/><path d="M5.37 20.5Q12.17 20.81 18.98 20.53" stroke-width="1.568"/><path d="M6.96 2.99Q7.07 4.77 6.9 6.55Q8.96 9.29 11.16 11.9Q9.06 14.67 6.88 17.38Q7.08 19.09 7.12 20.82" stroke-width="1.424"/><path d="M17.18 3.29Q17.12 4.88 16.94 6.46Q14.82 9.19 12.91 12.08Q14.98 14.86 17.14 17.56Q17.15 19.19 17 20.81" stroke-width="1.728"/></svg>

Pencil variant

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

<Hourglass size={32} pencil />

The file is icons/hourglass.svg in the package (pencil/hourglass.svg for the pencil variant). Matita 0.3.0.

02How it's drawn

The recipe for hourglass

Hourglass is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of 2 lines and 2 polylines 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
L 5.5 3.5 18.5 3.5;
L 5.5 20.5 18.5 20.5;
P 7 3.5 7 6.5 11 12 7 17.5 7 20.5;
P 17 3.5 17 6.5 13 12 17 17.5 17 20.5
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 hourglass. Seed 0 is the default.

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

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil