# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip) #### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683/8 "2019-03-13T15:16:36Z")
Have a look here to learn how to use new font awesome icons > [@Introducing Font Awesome 5 and SVG icons](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-font-awesome-5-and-svg-icons/101643): > > See also: [We're upgrading our icons to Font Awesome 6!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-upgrading-our-icons-to-font-awesome-6/325349) We will shortly merge into master a [branch](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/fontawesome5) that upgrades Discourse to Font Awesome 5.5.0 (the free version) and switches to using SVG icons instead of an icon font. This is a substantial change, with lots of benefits, and one significant change for developers. Here is a quick rundown of the changes: using SVG icons will provide crisper icons, better for accessibility and easier to customize, see [this Github article](https://blog.github.com/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/) for more details since… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/category-icons/104683)._