Choosing icons

Wherever PostRoll asks you to pick an icon — a wiki page, a map pin, a card block, a condition on a token, a die face — you get the same picker. Click the icon button beside whatever you’re naming.

What’s in it

The picker opens on suggestions for the thing you’re editing: places and landmarks for a map pin, conditions for a token, moons and seasons for a calendar phase. Your recent picks sit above them, per surface, so the icons you keep reaching for stay one click away.

Three tabs across the top:

• Icons — suggestions, your recents, and search.
• Fantasy — PostRoll’s own hand-drawn sigils: spell schools, creature types, damage kinds, class marks, conditions.
• My Icons — the icon packs you own. Only shows when a surface can display them.

Search

Type two or more letters and the picker searches thousands of open-licensed icons. Results are grouped by the set they come from, and the chips above them filter to one set.

1. Type what the thing is — tavern, dragon, anchor, crown.
2. Narrow with the set chips if one style suits your world better.
3. Tick More sets to widen the search from the curated sets to everything PostRoll can offer.

Tip

Search by what an icon means rather than what it looks like. danger and combat find more useful results than triangle or two swords.

Emoji

Some fields — entity types, calendar phases — also accept an emoji. Paste one in and it renders as itself.

Where each kind of icon can be used

Most places take any icon. A few are fussier, for good reason:

• Map pins, token conditions and die faces tint the icon to a colour you choose, so they offer single-colour icons only — a multicolour icon would come out a solid block.
• Card art marks use the fantasy sigils, which are drawn as line art to sit on a card’s banner and back.

Caution

An icon that shows as a plain square usually means it hasn’t loaded yet — icons are fetched as you need them rather than bundled into the app. If it persists, your connection is likely blocking the request.

Offline

Icons on anything you’ve saved for offline are stored with it, so a pinned world keeps its page icons, pins and cards on a plane. Icons you pick while offline resolve when you’re next online.

Credits

PostRoll’s icons come from open-licensed icon sets. Several require the artists to be credited, and they are — see icon credits for every set, its author, and its licence.