# Ability to assign icons to user groups

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-assign-icons-to-user-groups/396567
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** groups
**Created:** [February 20, 2026, 3:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-assign-icons-to-user-groups/396567 "2026-02-20T03:54:31Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-assign-icons-to-user-groups/396567/10 "2026-02-21T09:51:43Z")

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@long I think I managed to do it.

[https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/add-custom-icons-to-username](https://github.com/NateDhaliwal/add-custom-icons-to-username)

Note that if the user is in 2 groups where both are in the settings, the first one in the settings takes precedence.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/1/9/819fe2fe647d67795bfca708af96d697545ad4c5.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/8/f/d8f49a89770d5ee0105cd104d4a7ba062bcd7111.png)

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/2/0/620055b9c177b3e064c2f394c8e18f667d3ab355.png)

Settings are pretty self-explanatory:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/1/8/51811338a17490a2ac0e169dd1a94c555aecd346.png)

Please report back if you have any problems!

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Note that this is just a proof-of-concept. I will not be maintaining this forever.

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