Stamp icons on screen

The icon tool (9) stamps any of 1,848 Lucide icons onto the screen. Hover the icon button on the toolbar to open the picker, choose an icon, then tap to place it.

Pick an icon

Hover the icon button and the picker opens. You don’t need to click. It stays open while your pointer is on the button or the picker, and closes when you move to another control.

The picker shows:

• A search field that reaches the whole library. Type what the thing is called or what it means. Press Enter to take the top match.
• Recently used: the last 12 icons you placed, so anything you found by searching is one click away next time.
• An icon set: a curated grid for the kind of work you do.

Pressing 9 on the canvas also opens the toolbar and puts the cursor in the search field.

While you type in the search field, Esc closes the picker instead of stopping drawing.

Place it

• Tap to stamp the icon at a standard size, centred where you tapped.
• Drag a box to size it yourself.

The icon is fixed once placed. Picking a different icon afterwards doesn’t change the ones already on screen.

Icons follow the Style setting, so they come out hand drawn or smooth like other shapes. See Rectangles, ellipses and lines.

Choose the icon set

1. Click the pen in the menu bar and choose Preferences…
2. Go to Icons.
3. Choose a set under Set the picker opens on.

Set	What’s in it
General	Ticks, crosses, arrows and everyday marks for pointing things out
Software	Code, branches, servers and the rest of a developer’s vocabulary
Teaching	Classroom marking: grades, subjects, praise and corrections
Medical	Anatomy, observations, treatment and clinical warnings
Study	Notes, deadlines, revision and the things that go around them
Kids	Animals, weather, food and toys: concrete things a child can name
Business	Meetings, money, targets and reporting

General is the default. Whatever set you pick, search still covers all 1,848 icons.