Ideas for Arc XP

Ability to add custom icons for custom embeds

I thought this Idea already existed, so apologies if it's a duplicate, but I couldn't find it.


We love having the ability to add custom embeds (Power-Ups) to Composer and have added several embeds for our internal tools. A shortcoming, though, is the very limited amount of icons that can be chosen for the embeds. That leads to a lot of blank square icons visible to users, which can lead to confusion.


For example, one of our embeds is for our Voter Guide. The closest icon that could theoretically work is the newspaper icon, but we're already using that for Related Stories, so I don't want to use the same icon twice.


It would be nice if we had the ability to just upload our own custom icons for use.

  • Britton Peele
  • May 11 2021
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  • Brian McAlister commented
    23 Sep 14:19

    Thanks, Caytlyn! We noticed and are very appreciative!

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    Caytlyn Trickey commented
    23 Sep 14:14

    Hi there! In our Composer 2.8.1 release, we shipped over 300 additional icons giving you more flexibility in choosing icons that better reflect your custom embeds!

  • Marion Souzeau commented
    September 22, 2022 15:40

    Hello. We also use today all available icons (even if they sometimes have nothing to do with the custom embeds they are linked with). The ability to add new icons for custom embeds would be very appreciated and would avoid a lot of confusion/oversight.