User icon

When to use it

The head-and-shoulders bust marks a single person: profile links, account menus, author bylines. Use the multi-person variant for teams and sharing, and never the bust for 'contacts' plural — that reads as your own account. It doubles as the default avatar placeholder; if you use it that way, give real avatars the same circular crop so the swap doesn't jump.

Reach for the single bust for one person — the current account, a profile link, an author byline, an assignee. It reads as 'an individual'. Switch to the two-person glyph the moment the subject is a group, a team, or shared membership; using the singular for a team (or the plural for one account) is the most common people-icon slip. Keep it distinct from user-plus, which specifically means 'add someone'.

• Reaching for Users? Reach for the two-person glyph when the subject is a group, team, or membership rather than one person.
• Reaching for User plus? Reach for the person-with-plus when the action is inviting or adding someone.