Ruler Icon
ruler · Design Tools · 6 styles
Open the Design Tools set and Ruler is one of the glyphs you get. It is one of 29 glyphs in that category and one of 1,246 icons in the library overall, each drawn on the same 24x24 grid so Ruler lines up optically with everything around it. The icon is addressed in templates by the string "ruler", and every style variant resolves from that single name.
The metaphor here is the idea of alignment, layers, colour picking and canvas manipulation. That places Ruler in the Design Tools family, which covers alignment, layers, colour picking and canvas manipulation and turns up in editor toolbars, property panels, layer trees and inspector rails. Teams building design tools, page builders and no-code editors reach for this set first. Use Ruler 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.
Ruler in 6 styles
Ruler 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.
RulerBoldRulerBoldDuotoneRulerLinearRulerOutlineRulerBrokenRulerLineDuotoneHow to use the ruler icon in Angular
Nothing is registered globally by default, so the import list is the bundle. Import RulerBold from the "@rchernando/solar-icons/design-tools" 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 ruler live in that same entry point, so switching style is a one-line change.
import { RulerBold, RulerBoldDuotone, RulerLinear, RulerOutline, RulerBroken, RulerLineDuotone } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/design-tools';import { ApplicationConfig } from '@angular/core';
import { provideSolarIcons } from '@rchernando/solar-icons';
import { RulerBold } from '@rchernando/solar-icons/design-tools';
export const appConfig: ApplicationConfig = {
providers: [provideSolarIcons(RulerBold)]
};<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="bold" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="bold-duotone" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="linear" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="outline" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="broken" size="24px" />
<solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="line-duotone" size="24px" />More Design Tools icons
Icons drawn alongside it in Design Tools include Pallete2, Paint Roller, Layers Minimalistic, Flip Horizontal, Crop, Align Vertical Center, Align Left and Align Bottom. They share stroke weight and corner radius with Ruler, so mixing them in one toolbar stays consistent.
Icons related to Ruler
If Ruler is not quite the shape you want, Ruler Angular, 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, Vinyl, Folder, Sad Square, Bicycling, Letter and Ssdround cover neighbouring ideas; the name "ruler" is 5 characters long and splits into 1 token, which is how the explorer's search matches it.
Ruler icon FAQ
- How do I use the ruler icon in Angular?
- Import RulerBold from "@rchernando/solar-icons/design-tools", register it with provideSolarIcons(RulerBold) and render <solar-icon name="ruler" iconStyle="bold" />. No HTTP request is made — the SVG is inlined at build time.
- Which styles does Ruler 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 ruler?
- Yes. The size input accepts any CSS length and the SVG uses currentColor, so Ruler 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.