Ah, well, #cfcfcf works fine in both dark and light mode. Other option is also to use emojis of course 
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I’d like to use an icon that is only available with a Font Awesome Pro subscription (specifically this icon). How can I do so with this theme component?
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You need to first install this plugin:
And then the pro icons should be available for use for you, including for this component.
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Thank you, Penar, I’ll take a look at this. I’m having some unrelated trouble rebuilding the forum, and haven’t been able to test this out yet.
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I’ve noticed that this only works on Categories, not Sub-categories.
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Further to this, it works everywhere except where sub-categories are displayed as boxes above a category list. It works fine as rows above a category list.
For some reason categoryTitleLink isn’t being applied to the boxes.
Any idea why this is the case? I suspect that it might be a (small) problem in core.
later…
This has been fixed by the wonderful Discourse team. For some reason you need to remove and re-install this Theme Component for it to work though:
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I actually would love if this let me also put emojis instead of just FontAwesome icons. Is this currently possible?
The example is I want to have a Welcome category and I think the 
emoji seems to be a more and more standard way to do it.
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Ah, that seems simple enough 
Thank you!
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Where to set it? Modify the code or function toggle switch
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Would it be possible to use uploaded pics with url link?
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No, I don’t think so.
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I’ve specified a Font Awesome icon to replace the default padlock icon. Curiously, it appears to be smaller than the other icons… Makes for wonky alignment of the text (in addition to the icon itself being extra-tiny) in category dropdowns and in the ≡ menu’s category listing…
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How can i change the color for this from orange to blue ?
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Discourse-team gave me a little work-around that can be added to Theme CSS:
// FIX - New lock icon on private categories
svg.fa.d-icon.d-icon-user-plus.svg-icon.svg-string {
font-size: 1.3em;
align-self: center;
}
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I’m experiencing a problem where the category slug doesn’t seem to respect hyphens in exact names.
For example if I have category slugs:
beta-testing
beta-testing-bugs
beta-testing-features
Then I add the following theme component entires:
beta-testing,trash-alt,categoryColour
beta-testing-bugs,trash-alt,categoryColour
beta-testing-features,trash-alt,categoryColour
Only the first category takes the “trash-alt” icon and the others don’t display any icon
If I remove the hyphens it seems to work
categories:
beta-testing
betatestingbugs
betatestingfeatures
theme component entries
beta-testing,trash-alt,categoryColour
betatestingbugs,trash-alt,categoryColour
betatestingfeatures,trash-alt,categoryColour
This is a work around but it kinda breaks the naming convention for slugs. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
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Actually, I checked this again and that assessment of the problem doesn’t seem to be accurate. It seems like any slugs that have some of the same words as another will not work despite not using partial.
If I’m already using these slugs:
midi
deprecated
Then I can’t use:
midi-deprecated
midideprecated
mideprecated
deprecated-midi
somehow it won’t distinguish it as a different slug I guess
in the end, I had to use: abcd
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Hello. Can I make category icons on colored round background like nodebb? This makes the icons look prettier
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Yes that should be doable using some CSS.
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Hi. Can you add a category style setting to make it look like this?