Minus Square Icon
minus-square · Essentional Ui · 6 styles
Minus Square is one of the glyphs Solar Icons ships inside its Essentional Ui set. It is one of 139 glyphs in that category and one of 1,246 icons in the library overall, each drawn on the same 24x24 grid so Minus Square lines up optically with everything around it. The icon is addressed in templates by the string "minus-square", and every style variant resolves from that single name.
Read literally, the shape signals removing or decrementing and a square container that gives the glyph a consistent bounding box. That places Minus Square in the Essentional Ui family, which covers the primitives every interface needs — add, close, check, menu, info, danger and turns up in buttons, dialogs, toasts, form validation and empty states. Teams building literally every application, which is why it is the largest set here reach for this set first. Use Minus Square 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.
Minus Square in 6 styles
Minus Square has been redrawn for 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.
MinusSquareBoldMinusSquareBoldDuotoneMinusSquareLinearMinusSquareOutlineMinusSquareBrokenMinusSquareLineDuotoneHow to use the minus-square icon in Angular
Registration is explicit, which is what keeps the bundle small. Import MinusSquareBold from the "@rchernando/solar-icons/essentional-ui" 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 minus-square live in that same entry point, so switching style is a one-line change.
import { MinusSquareBold, MinusSquareBoldDuotone, MinusSquareLinear, MinusSquareOutline, MinusSquareBroken, MinusSquareLineDuotone } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/essentional-ui';import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { provideSolarIcons } from '@rchernando/solar-icons';
import { MinusSquareBold } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/essentional-ui';
export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
providers: [provideSolarIcons(MinusSquareBold)]
};<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="bold" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="bold-duotone" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="linear" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="outline" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="broken" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="line-duotone" size="24px" />More Essentional Ui icons
Icons drawn alongside it in Essentional Ui include Forbidden Circle, Box Minimalistic, Sleeping, Info Circle, Cursor Square, Accessibility, Pin and Glasses. They share stroke weight and corner radius with Minus Square, so mixing them in one toolbar stays consistent.
Icons related to Minus Square
If Minus Square is not quite the shape you want, Add Square, Bluetooth Square, Bookmark Square, Bookmark Square Minimalistic and Camera Square share part of its name and often work as substitutes.
Elsewhere in the library
Across the rest of the set, Chat Unread, Shield Plus, Download, Star Ring, Gps and Ufo3 cover neighbouring ideas; the name "minus-square" is 12 characters long and splits into 2 tokens, which is how the explorer's search matches it.
Minus Square icon FAQ
- How do I use the minus-square icon in Angular?
- Import MinusSquareBold from "@rchernando/solar-icons/essentional-ui", register it with provideSolarIcons(MinusSquareBold) and render <solar-icon name="minus-square" iconStyle="bold" />. No HTTP request is made — the SVG is inlined at build time.
- Which styles does Minus Square 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 minus-square?
- Yes. The size input accepts any CSS length and the SVG uses currentColor, so Minus Square 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.