How can I recolor Blender icons in outliner?

Question

I'd like to recolor standard icons from outliner, so the difference between collections, meshes cameras, and lights would be more noticeable.

Here is an example: on the left side you see the original outliner, on the right what I am trying to achieve

…You can recolour the collection icons with the right click context menu. But it looks like both the icon graphics and the Outliner draw code are hardcoded into Blender, so IDK if there's a good way. Maybe if you could trick a custom icon into a name collision? But IDs seem to be randomly generated, and it probably wouldn't affect C-level code even otherwise. — Will Chen, Jun 20 '21 at 22:14

score 9 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '21 at 22:29

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For the collections right click the collection.

For other icons: go to Edit > Preferences > Themes

edited Jun 20 '21 at 22:29

answered Jun 20 '21 at 21:32

RlyRlyHapyKid

Edit > Preferences > Themes won't help her get the result she's asking for, because you can only change the color for objects in general. Her example shows different colors for a camera object and a mesh object - so that you can visually distinguish between different kinds of objects. – Gordon Brinkmann Jun 21 '21 at 08:39
True. It is not the thing I am trying to achieve T_T – 3DBear Jun 21 '21 at 17:05

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