Inline emoji

Drop :slug: into any message text to render a pixel-art icon inline:

Example

[[playlist.section.widget]]
type = "message"
text = ":taco: Taco Tuesday!"

Available slugs

Use :slug: inside any text-bearing widget to render a pixel-art icon inline. Each is an 8×8 sprite in its native colors; the surrounding text uses your font_color. On a default_scale > 1 panel (bigsign), every slug auto-upgrades to a 32×32 hires sprite — same horizontal footprint, 16× more detail.

The slug list rots fast as new icons are added. The source of truth is src/led_ticker/pixel_emoji.py — grep -E '^\s+"[a-z_]+":' src/led_ticker/pixel_emoji.py lists every slug. Re-run uv run python tools/render_emoji_previews.py after adding a sprite to refresh the previews on this page.

Plugin emoji. Some icons ship with external plugins (install the plugin to use them; the slugs in the table below are all built in):

:baseball.ball: (white ball with red stitching) — baseball

:pokeball.ball: (red top, white bottom, button-banded) — pokeball

Slug	Lowres (8×8)	Hires (32×32)	Description
`:bunny:`			Bunny silhouette
`:cat:`			Cat (default gray; see color variants below)
`:cloud:`			Cloud icon
`:droplet:`			Water droplet (blue teardrop)
`:email:`			Envelope (white)
`:flower:`			Pink flower
`:fog:`			Fog icon
`:heart:`			Heart (default red; see color variants below)
`:instagram:`			Instagram glyph (magenta gradient)
`:moon:`			Crescent moon
`:partly_cloudy:`			Sun + cloud
`:pride:`			Pride flag stripes (default rainbow; see variants below)
`:rain:`			Rain icon
`:snow:`			Snow icon
`:star:`			Yellow star (default; see color variants below)
`:sun:`			Sun icon
`:taco:`			Taco
`:thunder:`			Thunder icon

Color variants

Heart colors

:heart: defaults to red. Six additional color slugs share the same shape:

Slug	Lowres	Hires
`:heart_red:`
`:heart_orange:`
`:heart_yellow:`
`:heart_green:`
`:heart_blue:`
`:heart_purple:`
`:heart_pink:`

Star colors

:star: defaults to yellow. Six additional color slugs share the same shape:

Slug	Lowres	Hires
`:star_red:`
`:star_orange:`
`:star_yellow:`
`:star_green:`
`:star_blue:`
`:star_purple:`
`:star_pink:`

Cat colors

:cat: defaults to gray with yellow eyes. Five other coats are available:

Slug	Lowres	Hires
`:cat_gray:`
`:cat_orange:`
`:cat_white:`
`:cat_black:`
`:cat_brown:`
`:cat_cream:`

Pride flag variants

:pride: defaults to the rainbow flag. Other flags:

Slug	Lowres	Hires
`:pride_rainbow:`
`:pride_trans:`
`:pride_bi:`
`:pride_lesbian:`
`:pride_nb:`
`:pride_ace:`
`:pride_demi:`

Hires on the bigsign

When the panel is at default_scale > 1, slugs auto-render the higher-detail sprite — same horizontal footprint (8 logical columns), 16× more detail per cell. On scale=1 (small sign), the lowres 8×8 sprite is used.

:moon: is the canonical hires example: a 32×32 sprite with circle-subtraction shading.

Adding a new emoji

Edit src/led_ticker/pixel_emoji.py. Define an 8×8 pixel-data tuple ((x, y, r, g, b)), add it to EMOJI_REGISTRY. For hires, draw a 32×32 variant and add it to HIRES_REGISTRY. The renderer auto-handles the scale dispatch. Then run uv run python tools/render_emoji_previews.py to refresh the preview PNGs.