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title: Mobile icons
description: Use icons to provide unique identifiers for navigation and actions in your mobile applications.
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# Mobile icons

Use icons to provide unique identifiers for navigation and actions in your mobile applications.

Icons can be used in the following places in mobile apps.

**Note:**

-   To find a list of icon codes, see the topics for the icon font family you want to use in the [Mobile icon reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/mobile/mobile-icon-reference.md).
-   For a visual introduction to the mobile icons, see [Mobile UX Improvement with Icon Sections](https://youtu.be/GjSfqR0RL-g?si=TjwV65kBgsOBKZZX), a lesson in the ServiceNow Community Mobile App Academy on YouTube.com.

-   navigation bars
-   buttons
-   cards and card records
-   tiles in the icon section of apps
-   items in lists
-   quick action functions
-   links to employee profiles

## Icon types

There are three basic types of icons.

-   Font icons
-   User icons
-   Image icons

Each type is designed to be used for distinct purposes and locations in your mobile apps. For visual examples of these icons, see the [Mobile icon reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/mobile/mobile-icon-reference.md).

## Font icons

Font icons are the largest group of icons. There are several font families which are designed for specific uses.

-   **now-mobile-icons** font family

    These icons are designed to be used in screens. Use them for lists, section destinations that go to list screens and browser screens. Use these icons to represent a work flow or a screen that you want users to navigate to.

-   **now-mobile-icons-cards** font family

    Use these icons in the body of cards.

-   **now-mobile-icons-buttons** font family

    These icons are designed to be used for functions. They can be used on buttons that are located on cards or for quick actions.

-   **now-mobile-icons-ALPnavbar** font family

    These icons appear in the upper right corner of your mobile screen and are used as navigation to another screen.


## Image icons

Image icons are not font-type icons. They are designed to be used on navigation tabs and on image-type section destinations. These are the same section destinations that font icons from the **now-mobile-icons** font family are used on.

For information about configuring the icon section destination, see [Adding images to an icon section](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/mobile/add-image-icon-section.md).

## User icons

These icons represent the logged-in user and are used to launch the logged-in user's profile. They can be used on a head function of a launcher screen. They cannot be used in header functions of other screen types such as list, calendar, or map screens.