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title: Icons, labels and link tiles
summary: Give a heading, paragraph, group or list one of the theme's icons, a paragraph the look of a label, an arrow link or a badge, and make a card one link.
url: https://lanternwp.com/docs/icons-and-text-styles
updated: 2026-11-01
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# Icons, labels and link tiles

The theme's sections use a few small looks again and again: an icon before a line, a label over a heading, a link with an arrow, a badge and a card that is one link. You give them to your own blocks in the block's settings, in the Site Editor or in a page.

## Add an icon

1. Select a **Heading**, **Paragraph**, **Group** or **List**.
2. In the block's settings, open **Icon** and choose one of the icons. **None**, the first, removes it.
3. For a heading, paragraph or group, turn on **After the text** to put the icon after it, as on a link. A list shows the icon before every item, and a paragraph with the **Arrow link** style shows it before the text, since its arrow is after it.

## Give a block a style

Select the block, open the **Styles** tab of its settings and choose a style under **Styles**:

| Style | Blocks | What it looks like |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Label** | Paragraph, Heading, Post Terms | Small capitals in the theme's label font, as over the home page's sections and on a post's categories. |
| **Arrow link** | Paragraph | A link with an arrow after it, such as "View all". Put one link in the paragraph. |
| **Badge** | Paragraph | A small pill, such as "New". |
| **Sale badge** | Paragraph | The badge in the sale color, such as "Up to −20%". |

**Default** takes the style away. The theme's own sections and the demos use these styles too, so a block you select shows the one it has. In a section of a pattern, select **Edit pattern** first to reach the styles of the blocks inside it.

## Make a card one link

A card that leads somewhere, such as a category tile or a promotion, opens its link from anywhere on it: its picture, its heading and its text.

1. Put one link inside a **Group** or **Cover**, such as a paragraph with the **Arrow link** style.
2. Select the group or cover and, in its settings, open **Card link**.
3. Turn on **Link the whole card**.

If the card holds no link, the settings say so: add one, or turn the setting off. In the editor the link stays on its own text, so you can still select the blocks inside the card.

## If a section stops looking right

Some of the theme's sections get their layout and behavior from settings under **Advanced**. When you change one of them, the block's settings say what it takes away; undo the change to get the section back.