Icon Shortcodes

Insert emoji and custom icons with shortcodes

• Easily import and manage custom icons (support .bmp, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .svg, and .webp)
• Render custom icons in editor (Legacy editor supported by Codemirror Options
• Built-in Unicode 13.1 Emoji, Lucide support
• Font Awesome, and Remixicon available via download
• API ready to be intergated by other plugins
• Fuzzy search: type in :book to find 📖(:open_book:) and 📗(:green_book:)

Inspired by obsidian-emoji-shortcodes, obsidian-icon-folder, obsidian-icons and remark-emoji.

NOTE: since v0.7.0, Font Awesome and RemixIcon are no longer bundled as bulti-in icon packs to reduce bundle size and speed up the loading. Go to the setting tab to download them.

Note: this plugin may conflicts with obsidian-emoji-shortcodes, disable it before using this plugin

How to use

Insert Icon

This plugins support GitHub favored emoji shortcodes, the full list of which can be found here: Emoji Cheat Sheet

• To insert icon in editor, type in :/：： followed by the search query to get suggester, for example :book
  • for multiple keywords, add + between words, for example :open+book
  • You can disable suggester in the setting tab
• The emoji, by default, is inserted in character in favor of shortcodes, which is visible in both editor and preview, you can change this behavior in the setting tab

Add Custom Icons

support icon format: .bmp, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .svg, .webp

1. Go to setting tab
2. At the Custom Icons section, type in a name for new icon pack and click add button (better be short, it's acting as the id of icon pack and prefix of all icon shortcodes in this pack)
3. Add the new icon pack entry, drag supported file in or select them by click on select file to import button to import custom icons
4. You can access icon manager by clicking manage icon. each icon has the following button
   • star: remove _1 suffix, useful when there are multiple alternative icons
   • delete, rename

Backup & Restore Custom Icons

v0.6.0+ required

Since v0.6.0, all custom icons are stored in icons folder under config directory (.obsidian/icons normally), you can:

• open folder (Desktop only)
• Backup all icons / selected icon pack to zip file (will be stored in the root vault directory)
• Restore icons from zip file

Styling Icons

In order to customize the icons in order to change their color, size, etc, you should make a CSS snippet.

1. Go to Settings -> Appearance -> CSS Snippets
2. Turn on the CSS Snippets option and then click the folder to navigate to it's folder.
3. Make a new file called icons.css
4. Open icons.css in your preferred text editor
5. Add the following:

   .isc-icon > *:first-child {
     /** changes for all icons. */
   }
   .isc-icon.icon-emoji-icon > *:first-child {
     /** changes for emoji icons. */
   }
   .isc-icon.isc-fas > *:first-child {
     /* changes for icons in the specific icon pack */
     /* (font awesome soild in this example) */
   }
   

6. Go Back to Settings -> Appearance -> CSS Snippets
7. Click the reload button
8. A button with the title "icons" should appear, turn it on.

Your changes will now be applied and you can edit the file when you want.

For Developer

Use API

1. run npm i -D @aidenlx/obsidian-icon-shortcodes in your plugin dir
2. import the api (add import { getApi } from "@aidenlx/obsidian-icon-shortcodes")
3. use api
   1. check if enabled: getApi() !== undefined or getApi(YourPluginInstance) !== undefined
   2. access api: getApi() / getApi(YourPluginInstance)

For all exposed API method, check api.ts

Compatibility

The required API feature is only available for Obsidian v1.0.0+.

Installation

From BRAT

To install a pre-release, download and enable the Obsidian42 BRAT plugin, add the beta repository aidenlx/obsidian-icon-shortcodes, and then have BRAT check for updates.

From GitHub

1. Download the Latest Release from the Releases section of the GitHub Repository
2. Put files to your vault's plugins folder: <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-icon-shortcodes
3. Reload Obsidian
4. If prompted about Safe Mode, you can disable safe mode and enable the plugin. Otherwise, head to Settings, third-party plugins, make sure safe mode is off and enable the plugin from there.

Note: The .obsidian folder may be hidden. On macOS, you should be able to press Command+Shift+Dot to show the folder in Finder.

From Obsidian

Not yet available

1. Open Settings > Third-party plugin
2. Make sure Safe mode is off
3. Click Browse community plugins
4. Search for this plugin
5. Click Install
6. Once installed, close the community plugins window and the plugin is ready to use.