# Topic Title Flair - or something like that?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 21, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619 "2021-10-21T06:28:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/1 "2021-10-21T06:28:10Z")
I would like to know if we have a feature like topic title flair as known from reddit?
Im building a new forum and to categories the topic I will use tags.
But to categories the _topic type_ I could use topic flairs as known from reddit. Do we have a plugin like that? I did search but I might have missed it… 🙂
When posting on reddit
Topic list;
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### Author:  [@Serakoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Serakoi)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 7:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/2 "2021-10-21T07:34:33Z")
This would be lovely to have! It would add a little bit of color into the topic list, which would look great in my opinion!
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### Author:  [@tachibanalolo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tachibanalolo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 7:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/3 "2021-10-21T07:41:53Z")
I have created a plugin before. I’m not sure is that what you want.
> [@Discourse Coloring Tag](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-coloring-tag/203614):
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> This is a Discourse theme component that allows admin to change tag’s background color and text color. [Repository Link](https://github.com/RailForWork/Discourse-Coloring-Tag) https://github.com/RailForWork/Discourse-Coloring-Tag Theme Settings Comma delimited in this order: Tag Name,Background Color,Text Color. Tag Name: What your Tag Name is. Background Color: Background Color of the tag. Text Color: Decide the text color in the tag. A correct example for settings will be: [Theme-component,#ffffff,black.] (Both Background color an…
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 7:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/4 "2021-10-21T07:58:45Z")
I may have a look at that one.
But what I basiclly is looking for is a addon to the tags feature or how to explain… 🤔
I would like to have 2 set of tags.
1. A set that works as tags in the native discourse
2. And a set that describe the type of post. Eg this tag/flair is added ahead of the topic title - like in the image above. Does it make sense?
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### Author:  [@tachibanalolo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tachibanalolo)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/5 "2021-10-21T08:01:29Z")
> [@frold](#):
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> And a set that describe the type of post. Eg this tag/flair is added ahead of the topic title - like in the image above. Does it make sense?
For this, I think you need to create categories or sub-categories.
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/6 "2021-10-21T08:10:40Z")
It will not solve my issue.
Let say my forum is a smartphone forum.
I would have e.g. 2 categories
Apple
Android
In Apple I would have tags like **iphone8** , **Iphone12**
In the Android forum I would have tags like; **Samsung Galaxy** , **huawei p30**
In each forum I could have different type of questions about **Apps** , **Setup** , **Jailbrake** - this would be the flair og Topic Title Flairs I would like to add to topics. Instead of having a huge list of subcatories where some is used very often - others with just a few post.
I dont want this structure
Apple
–Apps
–Setup
–Jailbrake
…
Android
–Apps
–Setup
–Jailbrake
…
It makes sense in a very huge and active forum. Not that much in a rather small one where
–Apple
–Android
Would be fine with the tweaks I am looking for.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 8:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/7 "2021-10-21T08:19:32Z")
These are just tags. The component looks like a good suggestion.
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 9:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/8 "2021-10-21T09:22:33Z")
Im not sure if I understand… could you be more specific?
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 9:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/9 "2021-10-21T09:38:25Z")
- Semantically, what you are asking for is a tag.
- @tachibanalolo has created a Component to decorate those tags in a similar fashion. Looks like a win to me.
- Categories don’t look like a good fit.
You might also want to look at: [Add a custom fontawesome icon and color to your tag - howto / tips & tricks - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-a-custom-fontawesome-icon-and-color-to-your-tag/67881)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2021, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/10 "2021-10-21T10:27:59Z")
I think [It’s Time We Talked About Tags](https://meta.discourse.org/t/its-time-we-talked-about-tags/72467)
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/11 "2021-10-22T08:18:51Z")
Well I still think that tags not fit my need 100%.
In my case I would need my users to choose between 2 set of groups af tags
one stock ticker: what stock is this about: ambu, solar, upst, etc…
and then
one typic type: like news, analysis, etc
Eg I have these 2 groups
At the moment when choosing tag the tags are mixed together and not grouped. The user should choose minimum 1 from ticker group and ONLY one from topic type…
I can not see how I can solve that without something like topic flairs… any ideas?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2021, 8:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/12 "2021-10-22T08:34:40Z")
Do you’d need to be able to have different groups of tags… [Set up structured tagging with tag groups and category tag restrictions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-create-tag-structures-tag-category-restrictions-tag-groups-and-tag-relationships/48260)
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2021, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/13 "2021-10-31T12:20:23Z")
You are not able, as far I can read it, to have
2 groups and require you have to assign, one and only one from each group. And when you have choosen one from group 1, then group 1 options disappear and then you can choose from group 2 tags group.
So for me, the solution of only using tags is no go. The tag selection is premature…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/14 "2021-10-31T15:18:04Z")
Do you need group 2 to change depending on group one?
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/15 "2021-10-31T20:55:17Z")
Im not sure I need it that way. But at the moment you can not control more then one tag group per category.
There is no ADD function
Why can I not add one more line?
And say 3 num tags from a new group?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2021, 6:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/16 "2021-11-14T06:24:01Z")
It is unclear what you are attempting to do. If you want “title flair”, that is _literally_ what tags are for. Target them with CSS to style them however you want, and you can achieve what you posted a screenshot of:
Every one of those would be a tag, and the CSS rule for the tag would add an emoji and color as needed.
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2021, 7:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-title-flair-or-something-like-that/206619/17 "2021-11-14T07:03:12Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> It is unclear what you are attempting to do
I did try to explain it here: [Request or idea for a component: topic title or topic flair](https://meta.discourse.org/t/request-or-idea-for-a-component-topic-title-or-topic-flair/207704)
I cant do it better. I dont think tags, alone, fits my need.
Anyway I seems like the only one looking for something like that… so let it be…