Scissors icon

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

scissors

01Use it

Use scissors

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

<Scissors size={24} />

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

JavaScript

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

toSvg(Scissors, { 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-scissors" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M8.53 5.27C8.59 5.44 8.87 5.95 8.9 6.31C8.94 6.67 8.85 7.06 8.73 7.41C8.61 7.76 8.43 8.12 8.19 8.41C7.95 8.7 7.63 8.98 7.29 9.16C6.94 9.34 6.51 9.46 6.12 9.48C5.72 9.5 5.28 9.42 4.92 9.27C4.55 9.13 4.2 8.88 3.91 8.62C3.63 8.35 3.39 8.02 3.21 7.67C3.02 7.32 2.82 6.92 2.8 6.53C2.78 6.14 2.94 5.72 3.09 5.34C3.24 4.95 3.42 4.54 3.7 4.24C3.98 3.94 4.4 3.7 4.79 3.56C5.19 3.41 5.64 3.36 6.07 3.37C6.49 3.37 6.95 3.44 7.34 3.6C7.73 3.76 8.12 4.02 8.41 4.32C8.7 4.62 8.93 5.01 9.1 5.41C9.27 5.8 9.44 6.25 9.43 6.67C9.43 7.09 9.13 7.73 9.07 7.95" stroke-width="1.792"/><path d="M5.97 14.66C6.16 14.7 6.75 14.77 7.1 14.91C7.45 15.05 7.8 15.26 8.07 15.52C8.34 15.78 8.54 16.12 8.72 16.46C8.89 16.81 9.07 17.2 9.09 17.59C9.12 17.97 9.02 18.42 8.86 18.78C8.7 19.15 8.43 19.51 8.13 19.79C7.83 20.07 7.45 20.33 7.06 20.47C6.67 20.62 6.21 20.67 5.78 20.66C5.36 20.65 4.89 20.58 4.5 20.4C4.12 20.22 3.76 19.91 3.47 19.58C3.19 19.26 2.97 18.86 2.81 18.46C2.66 18.05 2.5 17.58 2.53 17.14C2.56 16.71 2.79 16.27 3 15.87C3.21 15.47 3.45 15.02 3.79 14.73C4.14 14.43 4.63 14.24 5.08 14.11C5.53 13.98 6.04 13.9 6.52 13.95C6.99 13.99 7.5 14.15 7.92 14.38C8.35 14.61 8.88 15.17 9.07 15.33" stroke-width="1.776"/><path d="M8.25 7.78Q14.39 12.48 20.58 17.12" stroke-width="1.76"/><path d="M8.23 16.11Q14.19 11.05 20.72 6.75" stroke-width="1.504"/></svg>

Pencil variant

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

<Scissors size={32} pencil />

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

02How it's drawn

The recipe for scissors

Scissors is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of 2 circles and 2 lines 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
C 6 6.5 2.8;
C 6 17.5 2.8;
L 8.4 8 20.5 17;
L 8.4 16 20.5 7
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 scissors. Seed 0 is the default.

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

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil