# How to choose icons for links in custom section **URL:** \ **Category:** UX\ **Tags:** sidebar\ **Created:** [February 5, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-choose-icons-for-links-in-custom-section/294219 "2024-02-05T17:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-choose-icons-for-links-in-custom-section/294219/1 "2024-02-05T17:55:11Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Custom sidebar sections being tested on meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-sidebar-sections-being-tested-on-meta/255303/34): I added a personal, custom link section to one of the forums I use often. I prefer to use different icons and not only the default link icon because I can recognize them better that way. Are there any tips on how to find the best icon? I cannot scroll through the whole list because it is just cut off somewhere. I know I can search there, but how do I know what to search for? - especially when the forum is not in English. But even in an English forum, I could search for “monitor” and find nothing because I would have to search for “desktop” to find the icon I am looking for. Of course, I can have a look at all the free Font Awesome 5 icons, but then I always have to check whether that icon is available in that forum, and my impression was that most were not. Therefor I’ll miss all the extra icons, which come from discourse. So how do you expect users to find the fitting icon? Maybe something like the emoji picker would work better. There, searching also only works when you know the correct English name, but you can also find it without by scrolling. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-choose-icons-for-links-in-custom-section/294219)._