Icons for categories

Tordanik · 2022-05-10T14:24:58.042Z

Category icons could improve the visual appearance and usability of this forum, especially once the migration introduces a much larger number of categories. Displaying flags for country-level categories was already mentioned as a possibility and would be a good example use case.

At the moment, we use Unicode characters/emojis to achieve a similar effect for some categories, such as “ This forum issues and requests” and “ New category requests”. This is a decent approximation. However, this causes the symbol to be included even in contexts where a purely textural rendidion of the category title might be more appropriate.

Should we support this properly? There appears to be at least one relevant Discourse plugin:

Discourse Meta – 19 Dec 18

Category icons component

What this does? This component allows category badge links to have icons next to the category name. Here is an example of how this would look, with category style set to none: Here is how this would look with category style set to box: ...

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Mateusz_Konieczny · 2022-09-22T00:00:50.560Z

I would be rather against more icons/emoticons.

waldyrious · 2022-11-04T17:06:13.614Z

This would be particularly helpful for the local community categories, which currently resort to setting the colored square to a prominent color from the flag:

A workaround could be to use country flag emojis in the category names, e.g. , , etc., but those are not available for all communities, since some of them don’t correspond to counties: Català, LATAM, etc. So proper icons would be great.