Backspace Icon
backspace · Text Formatting · 6 styles
Backspace sits in the Text Formatting shelf of the Solar Icons library. It is one of 33 glyphs in that category and one of 1,246 icons in the library overall, each drawn on the same 24x24 grid so Backspace lines up optically with everything around it. The icon is addressed in templates by the string "backspace", and every style variant resolves from that single name.
In practice it stands for the idea of typography controls and rich-text formatting. That places Backspace in the Text Formatting family, which covers typography controls and rich-text formatting and turns up in WYSIWYG toolbars, markdown editors, comment boxes and CMS fields. Teams building editors and content tooling reach for this set first. Use Backspace where the label alone would be ambiguous — an icon-only button, a dense table row, a mobile tab bar — and keep an accessible name on the control, because the SVG itself is decorative.
Backspace in 6 styles
Backspace is available in 6 style variants: Bold, Bold Duotone, Linear, Outline, Broken and Line Duotone. Bold gives you solid filled shapes that hold their weight at 16px and read clearly against coloured backgrounds. Bold Duotone gives you a filled body with a second, lower-opacity layer that adds depth without a second colour token. Linear gives you even 1.5px strokes, the neutral default for dense interfaces and toolbars. A common pairing is Bold for the selected state and Line Duotone for the rest, so the active item reads without a colour change.
BackspaceBoldBackspaceBoldDuotoneBackspaceLinearBackspaceOutlineBackspaceBrokenBackspaceLineDuotoneHow to use the backspace icon in Angular
There is no sprite sheet and no runtime registry lookup over the network. Import BackspaceBold from the "@rchernando/solar-icons/text-formatting" entry point, hand it to provideSolarIcons in your application config or in a route-level providers array, and render it with the solar-icon component. All 6 exports for backspace live in that same entry point, so switching style is a one-line change.
import { BackspaceBold, BackspaceBoldDuotone, BackspaceLinear, BackspaceOutline, BackspaceBroken, BackspaceLineDuotone } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/text-formatting';import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { provideSolarIcons } from '@rchernando/solar-icons';
import { BackspaceBold } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/text-formatting';
export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
providers: [provideSolarIcons(BackspaceBold)]
};<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="bold" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="bold-duotone" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="linear" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="outline" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="broken" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="line-duotone" size="24px" />More Text Formatting icons
Icons drawn alongside it in Text Formatting include Text Cross Square, Link Minimalistic2, Text Underline, Text Circle, Link Broken Minimalistic, Text Selection, Text Bold and Eraser Square. They share stroke weight and corner radius with Backspace, so mixing them in one toolbar stays consistent.
Elsewhere in the library
Elsewhere in the library, User Block, Archive, Call Chat, Code Scan, Filters and I Phone cover neighbouring ideas; the name "backspace" is 9 characters long and splits into 1 token, which is how the explorer's search matches it.
Backspace icon FAQ
- How do I use the backspace icon in Angular?
- Import BackspaceBold from "@rchernando/solar-icons/text-formatting", register it with provideSolarIcons(BackspaceBold) and render <solar-icon name="backspace" iconStyle="bold" />. No HTTP request is made — the SVG is inlined at build time.
- Which styles does Backspace support?
- 6 of them: Bold, Bold Duotone, Linear, Outline, Broken and Line Duotone. Each is a separate export, so you only ship the ones you import.
- Can I change the size and colour of backspace?
- Yes. The size input accepts any CSS length and the SVG uses currentColor, so Backspace inherits the text colour of its container — a Tailwind class such as text-violet-400 is enough.
One of 1,246 icons in the Solar Icons explorer. See also the installation guide and the styling reference.