# Where is the FA icon seeding for Discourse?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 11, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783 "2026-08-11T11:03:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@AkarinLiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkarinLiu)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 11:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/1 "2026-08-11T11:03:53Z")
I searched everywhere in the Discourse icon library but couldn’t find this icon:
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/2 "2026-08-11T11:24:11Z")
Since the [🌱 seedling](https://fontawesome.com/icons/classic/solid/seedling) icon is not part of the [default list of icons](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/c37cf0f272995f5a8df18b0dd536a4d9c43dbf2f/lib/svg_sprite.rb#L3-L298), you have to add it to the `SVG icon subset` site setting before it’s available to use 😉
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### Author:  [@AkarinLiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkarinLiu)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/3 "2026-08-11T11:48:17Z")
I added it, but I can’t find it.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 11:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/4 "2026-08-11T11:51:22Z")
The regular (`far-`) version of the icon is a `pro` icon. You won’t be able to use that without [Discourse FontAwesome Pro](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fontawesome-pro/150871)
But the screenshot in your first post shows the solid version. That one should work. But you add it without a prefix
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### Author:  [@AkarinLiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkarinLiu)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 12:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/5 "2026-08-11T12:08:07Z")
Still couldn’t find it. Also, regarding the icon thing you mentioned, I manually uploaded and added it from the Font Awesome website.
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### Author:  [@AkarinLiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkarinLiu)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 12:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/6 "2026-08-11T12:10:08Z")
Additionally, I’m not sure if this is a bug, but although I added it to the Font Awesome SVG list in the admin backend, it disappeared after refreshing.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 12:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/7 "2026-08-11T12:18:17Z")
I just added the icon on my forum
Then I reloaded the page and was able to select it as a badge icon
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### Author:  [@AkarinLiu](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AkarinLiu)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/8 "2026-08-11T12:22:18Z")
Looks like I accidentally typed an extra prefix. I’m such an idiot; what should have taken just a few minutes ended up wasting nearly an hour (just like Chen Qianyu from Endless)……
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/9 "2026-08-11T17:56:51Z")
Do you know why this is needed now? I think a while ago it was possible to select new icons for badges without adding them to the site setting (with a quick search, I only found a [PR](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/20235) adding the parameter to only show available icons in the icon picker for sidebar links, because users aren’t able to add new icons, which indicates that in other places this was possible).
Discourse offered all the icons available on FontAwesome in search, which is really helpful because otherwise there is no way to learn about the icons in Discourse. It doesn’t seem to match the strategy of making things easier to set up if you now need to search on [FontAwesome.com](http://FontAwesome.com), add the icon to a site setting, and add it to a badge instead of searching and selecting it in the icon picker.
And in this case it would have helped avoid the struggle of using the correct prefix.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 10:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/10 "2026-08-12T10:22:01Z")
Those are good points. Let me see if I can fix this issue once and for all by adding support for proper search & pagination on this component 🧐
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### Author:  [@arzhost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arzhost)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/12 "2026-08-12T10:59:35Z")
Thanks for sharing the solution! I was also wondering where this icon was located in the Discourse icon library. It’s helpful to know that adding the icon first and then reloading the page makes it available as a badge icon.
That’s a simple and useful workaround. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/13 "2026-08-12T15:02:21Z")
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> Previously, the icon pickers for badges and group flair only offered icons alrea…dy in the site's SVG sprite: \`only\_available\` arrived as a query-string value where both \`"false"\` and \`""\` are truthy in Ruby, so every picker had been silently restricted since 2023 — and even unrestricted, the endpoint capped results at the first 500 of 2,000+ icons alphabetically. A badge could not use a new icon until it was manually added to \`svg\_icon\_subset\` (https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783).
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> This change lets the pickers search the entire icon set: browsing lists the sprite's icons first, search covers everything, and the grid loads pages of 100 as it scrolls. The server reports \`has\_more\` so clients carry no page-size knowledge, ships \`\\` markup only for icons the viewer's theme sprite cannot render, and browsed symbols stay scoped to the picker — only a picked icon is added to the page sprite, so it keeps rendering until saving adds it to the sprite for everyone.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-fa-seeding/409783/15 "2026-08-24T15:18:46Z")
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