Plain Icon
plain · Message Conversation · 6 styles
Filed under Message Conversation, the Plain icon is part of the Solar Icons Angular package. 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 Plain lines up optically with everything around it. The icon is addressed in templates by the string "plain", and every style variant resolves from that single name.
Users read the shape as the idea of chat bubbles, threads and message state. That places Plain 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 Plain 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.
Plain in 6 styles
Plain is drawn 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.
PlainBoldPlainBoldDuotonePlainLinearPlainOutlinePlainBrokenPlainLineDuotoneHow to use the plain icon in Angular
Every export is an isolated constant, so the bundler drops whatever you never mention. Import PlainBold 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 plain live in that same entry point, so switching style is a one-line change.
import { PlainBold, PlainBoldDuotone, PlainLinear, PlainOutline, PlainBroken, PlainLineDuotone } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation';import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { provideSolarIcons } from '@rchernando/solar-icons';
import { PlainBold } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation';
export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
providers: [provideSolarIcons(PlainBold)]
};<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="bold" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="bold-duotone" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="linear" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="outline" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="broken" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="line-duotone" size="24px" />More Message Conversation icons
Icons drawn alongside it in Message Conversation include Multiple Forward Right, Inbox In, Chat Square Code, Chat Round Like, Square Forward, Paperclip Rounded2, Inbox Unread and Check Read. They share stroke weight and corner radius with Plain, so mixing them in one toolbar stays consistent.
Icons related to Plain
If Plain is not quite the shape you want, Plain2 and Plain3 share part of its name and often work as substitutes.
Elsewhere in the library
In other corners of the library, Minimalistic Magnifer, Alarm Pause, Medal Star Square, Adhesive Plaster, Map Point Wave and Win Rar cover neighbouring ideas; the name "plain" is 5 characters long and splits into 1 token, which is how the explorer's search matches it.
Plain icon FAQ
- How do I use the plain icon in Angular?
- Import PlainBold from "@rchernando/solar-icons/message-conversation", register it with provideSolarIcons(PlainBold) and render <solar-icon name="plain" iconStyle="bold" />. No HTTP request is made — the SVG is inlined at build time.
- Which styles does Plain 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 plain?
- Yes. The size input accepts any CSS length and the SVG uses currentColor, so Plain 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.