User Icons
User is the icon behind nearly every account-related feature — profile menus, login forms, member lists, "who's assigned to this task" indicators. This page collects user icon variants across Pathwork's libraries, from a simple head-and-shoulders silhouette to more detailed or circular avatar-frame styles, so you can match the exact weight your navigation or form needs.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A user icon is typically a generic silhouette (head and shoulders) used as a placeholder or symbol, while 'avatar' usually refers to an actual user photo or initials displayed inside a circular or square frame. This page covers the generic silhouette style — for photo-based avatar components, you'd combine a container with the user's actual image or initials instead.
A single-user icon fits an individual profile link or account menu, while a multi-user icon (showing two or more overlapping silhouettes) better represents a team, group, or member list. Using a single-user icon for a group feature can be misleading, so match the icon to whether the destination shows one person or many.
A simple circular-framed silhouette is the most common convention for a profile menu trigger, especially when no profile photo is available yet as a fallback state. Once a user uploads a photo, many apps swap this generic icon for their actual avatar image inside the same circular frame.
This typically follows the same pattern as your other navigation icons — many apps use outline for inactive tabs and filled for the active tab, so check what convention your other nav icons (like home or settings) already follow and match it.
Each icon keeps the license from its source library attached to it, and terms can differ depending on which library a specific icon comes from. Check the license shown on the individual icon's page before using it commercially.
Yes, this is one of the most common uses — a generic user silhouette as the default state in an avatar component, shown while a photo is loading or when the user hasn't uploaded one, then replaced with the actual image once available.