# Category Icons

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** official, deprecated, category-icons
**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683 "2018-12-19T16:22:44Z")
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### Author: ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683/166 "2022-10-31T20:15:00Z")

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> [@renato](#):
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> It probably has been brought up before, but we can’t change a category color when the category style is `none` anymore, this notice is rendered instead:
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> > You can’t select colors because you have a category style of none.
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> Currently, we need to change the style to something else, change the color, and reset the style to `none`

Yep. Here’s the #Contribute > Bug topic about this, with some discussion:

> [@Category color selection should be allowed even when style is "none"](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-color-selection-should-be-allowed-even-when-style-is-none/213745):
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> In category settings, I see the message “You can’t select colors because you have a category style of none.” However, it’s used by the [Category Icons theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons-component/104683), and that works quite nicely with “none” as the style. My current work-around is to change the style setting, quickly set the category color, and quickly set it back. But that’s kind of silly. Please just allow it to be set (maybe with a note that it won’t change the color unless a theme does something with it, instead of hiding th…

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