icon

Summary

icon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (279 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• icon is a type of graphical user interface element^[2].
• icon is a type of character^[3].
• icon's Commons category is recorded as Icons^[4].
• icon's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Computer icons^[5].
• icon's partially coincident with is recorded as pictogram^[6].
• icon's partially coincident with is recorded as line art^[7].
• icon's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/icons^[8].
• icon's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2910^[9].
• icon's different from is recorded as Q223876^[10].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include graphical user interface element^[2] and character^[3].

Influence

Things named for icon include emoticon^[11] and Ionicons^[12], an icon collection^[13].

Why It Matters

icon ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (279 views/month).^[1] icon has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[14] icon is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[15]

Entities named for icon include emoticon^[11] and Ionicons^[12], an icon collection^[13].