# Adding icons rather than text

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-icons-rather-than-text/277622
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** custom-header-links
**Created:** [May 30, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-icons-rather-than-text/277622 "2019-05-30T12:38:36Z")
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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [May 30, 2019, 12:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-icons-rather-than-text/277622/2 "2019-05-30T12:55:43Z")

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> [@dylanh724](#):
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> This plugin is amazing – I’m not good at plugins

First of all this is a theme component, not a plugin. It is better to specify this before users get confused and try to install it like a plugin.

> [@dylanh724](#):
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> it would be great to support **images/icons**.

The second thing is, why you use this theme component instead of [Custom Header Links (icons)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/iconified-header-links/86307) which serves the purpose of adding icons to the menu? 😮

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