Built in Icons for customization

WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

Adding adaptive (dark mode friendly) built-in icons for object customization other than emojis.

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

There should be an option next to emojis in icon selection menu for some built-in icons categorized or not (like in Notion).

REAL WORLD USE CASES

Gives more visual options to play around and adds up to overall aesthetic of Anytype, could be a start point for the whole customization options to come. Also, the removal of homepage/dashboard is very close, and I think we will rely on the new sidebar, so it’ll look even better if we have monochromatic icons.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

An embed upload for icons would be great!

ADDITIONAL CONTEXT

When I upload custom icons it really looks good from my homepage but inside it’s just not transparent and looks really bad.


Hi @Kyrillos, thanks for the suggestion!
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And on a more general note, feedback is always appreciated so keep it coming but the team is aware that some UI work is needed and we will see some changes soon enough c;

This is a must, please add it soon! I can’t stand the outdated emojis that are currently being used.

Strongly agree with this post. The fact that we need to custom upload every single icon for every single page just because we don’t want to use emojis is very frustrating.

There are several free, open source icon packs that could be used for this if there isn’t enough design bandwidth in the Anytype team.

Some suggestions: css.gg, Heroicons, Bootstrap Icons, Remix Icon, and iconmonstr (technically not open source, but still free to use commercially). There are many others that I haven’t mentioned.

I would also like to add to this feature request the ability to choose the color for the icons, as well. This would probably just be a choice between the available text colors, but completely custom colors would be nice too.

I found a reddit post with a really good mockup of what it could look like https://www.reddit.com/r/Anytype/comments/1b11j76/applying_icons_for_everything_and_library_redesign/