icon-lexicon.v5.md
Semantic emoji lexicon for architecture documentation, diagrams, and technical writing.
Icons function as semantic anchors that help readers scan technical documents quickly.
Designed for:
- Markdown documentation
- Architecture diagrams
- draw.io / diagrams.net
- Mermaid diagrams
- Jupyter notebooks
- Technical blog posts
All Icons
🏛️ 🧱 🪨 🗿 🧬 📐 📏 🧭 🧮 🏗️ 🧰 ⚙️ 🏢 🏦 🏰 🚧 🚪 🪜 ♻️ 🧩 🗺️ 🌊🌐 📍 🏷️ 🛣️ 🛤️ 🚦 ➡️ 🔎 🔭 🌉 📚 📖 📙 📗 📘 🗒️ 📝 📄 📑 🗃️ 🗄️ 🗂️ 🧠 🎓 📜 📃 🧾 🔌 🔖 ✅ ☑️ 🧪 📦 🔗 👥 🌀 🌊 🎛️ 📣 📨 🟢 🟡 🔴 ⚠️ ⏱️ ⏳ 🕒 🕰 🚰 🔄 📈 📊 📋 🧟 🪦 🧊 🧑💻 💻 🧵 🔍 ⚖️ 🎯 🛡️ 🔐 🔒 🗝️ 🐞 🧨 🚨 🔬 ✔️ 🚀 ☁️ 🔥 💧 🌱 🌬️ 🌍 🌎 🌏 🛰️ 🏔️ 🏞️
Table of Contents
- Architecture & Structure
- Context & System Landscape
- Documentation & Knowledge
- Contracts & Interfaces
- Components & Modules
- Flow & Lifecycle
- Lean Flow
- Backlog & Work Management
- Engineering
- Analysis
- Security
- Testing & Quality
- Delivery & Operations
- System Dynamics
- External Environment
- Diagram Grammar
- Canonical Icons
🏛️ Architecture & Structure
| Category |
Icons |
| Foundations |
🧱 🪨 🗿 🧬 |
| Design / Blueprint |
📐 📏 🧭 🧮 |
| Construction |
🏗️ 🧰 ⚙️ |
| Institutions |
🏛️ 🏢 🏦 🏰 |
| Boundaries |
🚧 🚪 🪜 |
| Patterns |
♻️ 🧩 |
🗺️ Context & System Landscape
| Category |
Icons |
| Maps |
🗺️ 🧭 🌐 |
| Ownership |
📍 🏷️ |
| Routing |
🛣️ 🛤️ 🚦 ➡️ |
| Discovery |
🔎 🔭 |
| Crossings |
🌉 🚪 🚧 |
📚 Documentation & Knowledge
| Category |
Icons |
| References |
📚 📖 📙 📗 📘 |
| Working Docs |
🗒️ 📝 📄 📑 |
| Knowledge Stores |
🗃️ 🗄️ 🗂️ |
| Learning |
🧠 🎓 |
📜 Contracts & Interfaces
| Category |
Icons |
| Contracts |
📜 📃 🧾 |
| APIs |
🔌 ⚙️ |
| Schemas |
🧬 📐 |
| Versioning |
🏷️ 🔖 |
| Validation |
✅ ☑️ 🧪 |
🧩 Components & Modules
| Category |
Icons |
| Components / Services |
🧩 |
| Packages / Artifacts |
📦 🗂️ |
| Integration / Ports |
🔌 🔗 |
| Teams / Ownership |
👥 |
🌀 Flow & Lifecycle
| Category |
Icons |
| Flow |
🌀 🌊 ➡️ |
| Orchestration |
🎛️ |
| Messaging / Events |
📣 📨 |
| Status |
🟢 🟡 🔴 ⚠️ |
| Time |
⏱️ ⏳ 🕒 🕰 |
🌊 Lean Flow
| Category |
Icons |
| Flow |
🌊 |
| Bottleneck |
🚰 |
| Iteration |
🔄 |
| Throughput / Metrics |
📈 📊 |
🧟 Backlog & Work Management
| Category |
Icons |
| Work Items |
📋 🧾 |
| Waiting |
⏳ 🕰 |
| Zombie Work |
🧟 |
| Dead Work |
🪦 |
| Frozen Work |
🧊 |
⚙️ Engineering
| Category |
Icons |
| Coding |
🧑💻 💻 |
| Engineering Tools |
⚙️ 🧰 |
| Execution Threads |
🧵 |
🧠 Analysis
| Category |
Icons |
| Reasoning |
🧠 |
| Investigation |
🔍 |
| Metrics / Data |
📊 |
| Tradeoffs |
⚖️ |
| Objectives |
🎯 |
🛡️ Security
| Category |
Icons |
| Protection |
🛡️ 🔐 🔒 |
| Keys / Identity |
🗝️ |
| Threats |
🐞 🧨 🚨 |
🧪 Testing & Quality
| Category |
Icons |
| Testing |
🧪 🔬 |
| Verification |
✅ ✔️ ☑️ |
| Measurement |
📏 📊 |
📦 Delivery & Operations
| Category |
Icons |
| Deployment |
🚀 |
| Artifacts |
📦 |
| Infrastructure |
☁️ |
| Telemetry |
📊 |
| Incidents |
🚨 🔥 |
💧🔥🌱 System Dynamics
| Category |
Icons |
| Stability |
💧 |
| Risk / Hotspots |
🔥 |
| Growth / Evolution |
🌱 |
| Variability |
🌬️ |
🌐 External Environment
| Category |
Icons |
| Global Context |
🌐 🌍 🌎 🌏 |
| External Systems |
🛰️ |
| Constraints |
🏔️ |
| Environment |
🏞️ |
Diagram Grammar
| Icon |
Meaning |
| 🧩 |
Service |
| 🔌 |
API / Port |
| 🗄️ |
Database |
| 📣 |
Event |
| 🔗 |
Dependency |
| 🧵 |
Stream |
| 📊 |
Metric |
| 🔥 |
Architectural hotspot |
Canonical Icons
| Icon |
Meaning |
| 🏛️ |
Architecture |
| 🧱 |
Foundation |
| 🗺️ |
Context |
| 📍 |
Ownership |
| 📚 |
Documentation |
| 📜 |
Contract |
| 🧩 |
Component |
| 🔌 |
Port |
| 🌊 |
Flow |
| 🔥 |
Risk |
| 💧 |
Stabilization |
| 🌱 |
Evolution |
| ⏳ |
Waiting |
| 🧟 |
Zombie ticket |