Pen Icon

pen · Message Conversation · 6 styles

Open the Message Conversation set and Pen is one of the glyphs you get. It is one of 48 glyphs in that category and one of 1,246 icons in the library overall, each drawn on the same 24x24 grid so Pen lines up optically with everything around it. The icon is addressed in templates by the string "pen", and every style variant resolves from that single name.

The metaphor here is editing and drawing. That places Pen in the Message Conversation family, which covers chat bubbles, threads and message state and turns up in inboxes, chat headers, unread badges and notification centres. Teams building messaging, support desks and collaboration tools reach for this set first. Use Pen 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.

Pen in 6 styles

Pen ships 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.

BoldPenBold
Bold DuotonePenBoldDuotone
LinearPenLinear
OutlinePenOutline
BrokenPenBroken
Line DuotonePenLineDuotone

How to use the pen icon in Angular

Because each export is a separate binding, unused variants are dropped by the bundler. Import PenBold from the "@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation" 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 pen live in that same entry point, so switching style is a one-line change.

typescript
import { PenBold, PenBoldDuotone, PenLinear, PenOutline, PenBroken, PenLineDuotone } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation';
typescript
import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { provideSolarIcons } from '@rchernando/solar-icons';
import { PenBold } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation';

export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
  providers: [provideSolarIcons(PenBold)]
};
html
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="bold" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="bold-duotone" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="linear" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="outline" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="broken" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="line-duotone" size="24px" />

More Message Conversation icons

Icons drawn alongside it in Message Conversation include Chat Round, Chat Square Check, Inbox Out, Pen New Round, Pen New Square, Pen2, Plain and Plain2. They share stroke weight and corner radius with Pen, so mixing them in one toolbar stays consistent.

Browse all Message Conversation icons →

Icons related to Pen

If Pen is not quite the shape you want, Pen New Round, Pen New Square, Pen2, Ruler Cross Pen and Ruler Pen share part of its name and often work as substitutes.

Elsewhere in the library

Across the rest of the set, Shop Minimalistic, Dislike, Sort By Time, Face Scan Square, Star Rings and Full Screen cover neighbouring ideas; the name "pen" is 3 characters long and splits into 1 token, which is how the explorer's search matches it.

Pen icon FAQ

How do I use the pen icon in Angular?
Import PenBold from "@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation", register it with provideSolarIcons(PenBold) and render <solar-icon name="pen" iconStyle="bold" />. No HTTP request is made — the SVG is inlined at build time.
Which styles does Pen 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 pen?
Yes. The size input accepts any CSS length and the SVG uses currentColor, so Pen 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.