Icon Palette

Set custom icons and colors across your Obsidian vault, directly from the UI.

Click almost any icon on a file, folder, tab, tag, property, bookmark, or ribbon command and swap in one of 1,700+ Lucide icons, 1,900+ emojis, Simple Icons brand logos, or Devicon technology logos. Every icon can take one of nine theme colors or a custom RGB color.

Supported items

• Tabs
• Files and folders
• Bookmarks and groups
• Tags
• Properties
• Ribbon commands
• Window buttons, sidebar toggles, and help/settings buttons

Icon libraries

• Lucide (built-in app icons)
• Emoji (device-supported glyphs)
• Simple Icons (brand and product logos)
• Devicon (programming languages, frameworks, tools, cloud providers)

Simple Icons and Devicon are compressed and bundled, so there are no separate files to add to your vault.

Using it

Change an icon

Secondary-click an item and choose Change icon. On mobile, press and hold. In the Files, Bookmarks, and Properties lists you can hold Alt or Shift to select several items and change them at once.

Search any icon by name, filter between icons and emojis with the toggles, and click to confirm. Pick one of nine theme colors, or secondary-click the color bubble for a full RGB picker. Results wrap across two rows and scroll down for more.

Recent and pinned icons

The picker remembers the icon and color combinations you apply. Recently used combinations show up in a Recent row at the top of the picker, so you can reapply one with a single click, its original color and all. Secondary-click a recent combination (press and hold on mobile) and choose Pin to keep it in a Pinned row that sticks around; secondary-click a pinned one and choose Unpin to drop it. A pinned combination no longer appears under Recent.

Rules

Open the rulebook from the ribbon, the plugin settings, or the Open rulebook command to automate file and folder icons. A rule matches on conditions such as name, extension, path, tags, property values, and dates, using All, Any, or None logic. Automated icons never remove a custom icon you set by hand; they only replace it visually. Drag rules to set priority.

Language support

English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Simplified Chinese. Most non-English strings are machine-translated; corrections are welcome.

Privacy

Runs entirely locally and makes no network requests. It reads vault file and folder metadata so icons and rule conditions can be matched against names, paths, tags, links, headings, properties, and timestamps.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Credits

Built on the MIT-0 licensed Iconic by Holo and Better Icons by Christian Lempa.

License

MIT No Attribution. You are free to modify and share the source without crediting the author.