Make tags more evident

I noticed that tags can easily be mistaken by normal text and part of a title, for example here:

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At a glance it can be read “Using Discourse reference”.

Wouldn’t it be better if all tags had the hashtag, because it’s something people got used to? And maybe even a different color (customized by the admin)?

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Or it can follow the same formatting used in a post, with the tag icon, but still with a custom color:
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I just noticed that tag colors can be changed via CSS, so that’s good.
I also noticed that some tags already have custom icons, which is also good.

So:
1 - How to add those custom icons to tags? (update: found the component here)
2 - I still think that being able to do this on a Settings type of page, for both the icon and the color, would be great, so any admin can do it, with or without CSS knowledge.

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Yes, good suggestion! we have some loose plans to build this in to Discourse, but it hasn’t made it to the top of our priorities yet

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One step at a time. This is not a priority for sure, especially because it can be done with the component and via CSS. Good to know that it’s something you might implement in the future.

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