Question 1

What does the Highlight Outline icon mean?

Accepted Answer

The highlight-outline icon represents the act of highlighting or emphasizing something with an outline. It symbolizes importance, focus, or attention with a clear visual outline. Highlighting is a common practice in education, writing, and design to draw attention to key points or to make important information stand out. This icon can be used to indicate that certain information is crucial or deserves special attention.

Question 2

Where is the Highlight Outline icon used?

Accepted Answer

In software applications, the highlight-outline icon is often used in text editors, such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs, to highlight important text with an outline. It's also used in digital note-taking apps like Evernote or OneNote to emphasize key points with a clear visual outline. For example, a user might highlight a sentence in a document to draw attention to it or to indicate that it's a key takeaway.

Question 3

What does the Highlight Outline icon tell users?

Accepted Answer

From a UX perspective, the highlight-outline icon communicates the idea of importance and attention with a clear visual outline. It helps users understand that certain information is critical or requires special attention. This icon guides users to focus on key points or to take action on highlighted information. For instance, in an educational app, this icon might be used to highlight key concepts or important definitions.

Question 4

Can I download the Highlight Outline icon as SVG or PNG?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Question 5

How do I install the Highlight Outline icon with the shadcn CLI?

Accepted Answer

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds the icon to components/icons/material-symbols-highlight-outline.tsx.

Question 6

How do I use the Highlight Outline icon in Next.js or React?

Accepted Answer

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed HighlightOutlineIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Question 7

How do I use the Highlight Outline icon in Vue, Svelte or Angular?

Accepted Answer

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside.

Question 8

Can my AI agent install it for me?

Accepted Answer

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Highlight Outline icon, or any of 15,862 Material Symbols icons, and install it from a prompt.

Question 9

Can I use the Highlight Outline icon in commercial projects?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Apache 2.0 allows commercial use; keep the license notice when you ship the icons' source files. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Question 10

Is the Highlight Outline icon free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

Question 11

How do I change the color of the Highlight Outline icon?

Accepted Answer

It's drawn in currentColor, so it takes the text color wherever you use it. To bake a color in, set one in Customize before you copy.

Question 12

How do I change the size of the Highlight Outline icon?

Accepted Answer

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 24 × 24 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Question 13

How do I make the Highlight Outline icon accessible?

Accepted Answer

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Highlight Outline", so screen readers say what it does.

Highlight Outline