Iconic

A plugin for iconophiles, designed to blend seamlessly with vanilla Obsidian.

Click almost any icon on a tab, list, or ribbon to swap in one of the 1,300+ icons included in the app, or one of the 1,900+ emojis that your device can display.

⤿ Themes: Obsidian gruvbox, Catppuccin, Everforest Enchanted

Includes language support for English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. Most of the menus are currently machine-translated, but if you can supply more accurate translations, absolutely send a message or a pull request :)

Supported items

Tabs
Files & Folders
Bookmarks & Groups
Properties
Ribbon commands
Sidebar toggles
Help & Settings buttons
(Tablets) Pin buttons

How to install

This is still a very new plugin, so it's not searchable inside Obsidian yet. Follow these steps to install it using the BRAT plugin:

Open Obsidian
Search for BRAT in the community plugins browser, then install and enable it
In the settings for BRAT, click the Add Beta Plugin button
Paste this link https://github.com/gfxholo/iconic and click Add Plugin

If you don't want to use BRAT, you can also download the latest release files (ignore the source code) and drop them inside .obsidian/plugins/iconic/.

How to use

Secondary-click an item whose icon you want to change, then click Change icon from the menu. You can open menus on mobile by pressing & holding an item. Certain lists like Files, Bookmarks, and Properties let you hold Shift to select several items at once.

Every icon and emoji is searchable by name. When you find one that sings for you, click on it to confirm. Toggle the emoji picker by clicking the smiley button.

You can choose one of nine basic colors per icon. These colors follow the CSS theme of your vault, so they adjust automatically when it changes. You can also choose a specific RGB color instead.

How is this plugin different from Iconize?

Both plugins can add icons to files, folders, and bookmarks. Iconic can also:

Set icons for plugin tabs, properties, the ribbon, and some other UI buttons
Edit icons by clicking them
Change icons & colors in the same dialog
Dynamically change colors with the theme

Iconize is much more powerful at decorating files. It can:

Download and import icon packs
Use Twitter-style emojis
Type icons directly into your notes
Show icons beside links
Show icons beside note titles
Obey icon and iconColor properties
Auto-set icons based on filename rules
Customize icon size & margins

Can I use both plugins together?

Yes, just expect a few visual bugs! They currently do some fighting over control of tab icons and the Bookmarks pane.

License

This plugin is released under an MIT No Attribution license, which means you're free to modify and share its source code without even mentioning the author (me). It also protects the author from liability for damages, so I recommend using a similar license if you republish this code.