Square pen icon

A free pencil-style square pen icon, drawn by code from 1 polyline and 1 closed shape. Use it as an SVG, a React component, or by name. MIT licensed.

square-pen

01Use it

Use square-pen

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

<SquarePen size={24} />

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

JavaScript

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

toSvg(SquarePen, { 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-square-pen" data-sketch="" aria-hidden="true"><path d="M11.41 4.3Q7.88 4.37 4.36 4.58Q3.84 12.08 4.41 19.58Q11.93 20.01 19.46 19.66Q19.66 16.16 19.54 12.65" stroke-width="1.52"/><path d="M18 2.99Q19.42 4.51 20.91 5.95Q16.89 9.95 12.97 14.06Q11.28 14.21 9.6 14.33Q9.74 12.61 10.09 10.93Q14.09 7.01 18 2.99Q18.54 3.62 19.16 4.17" stroke-width="1.68"/></svg>

Pencil variant

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

<SquarePen size={32} pencil />

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

02How it's drawn

The recipe for square-pen

Square pen is not stored as a drawing. It is a recipe of 1 polyline and 1 closed shape 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 11 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 19.5 19.5 19.5 19.5 13;
Z 18 3 21 6 13 14 9.5 14.5 10 11
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 square-pen. Seed 0 is the default.

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

True pixel sizes.

Ink
Pencil