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Our Discourse installation got a feature for choosing icons for categories today! I’ve tried to make some reasonable selection from the available icon set so that we can try it out 
I personally find it nicer than the plain colored squares, but I wouldn’t mind some feedback from others 
Though, if you are more fond of the colored squares, please feel free to share that opinion as well!
I’m also open to suggestions for better icon choices. We can apparently choose from (almost?) all of the free icons on fontawesome.com, searchable here. I guess, technically – just to mention this option – it should also be possible to upload any other custom svg an an icon[1] as long as they are free/legal to use.[2]
I almost went with some question-mark [ 
] for help, but that category appears so commonly, it’d probably be too much. For “code review” I couldn’t decide yet if any of these “file”-related icons or something (else) from this category might be nicer.
really, Discourse’s appearance is very customizable anyway, if one puts in the work
the main thing that’s new is also perhaps better characterized by saying that icons for categories are now a standard feature, and easy to select through the standard site/category settings
it’s not like a comparable customization (or much more) would have been completely impossible before ↩︎
Oh that’s actually pretty cool, I’m learning only now that these “font-awesome” icons – well the free ones at least – are in fact published with CC licenses, so even just additional adjustment(s) or further remixing/combining/transforming these icons something isn’t entirely impossible. ↩︎
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