Small pictures, quick to read
Icons are the shortest arts on the site. A crosshair or a crown takes five to seven rows and reads at a glance, so it works even in the middle of a round.
Several of them carry a message without a word: a skull for a play that went badly, a shield as a reminder to buy armor, a crown under the name of whoever carried.
Rounds with a theme
Friends in a custom game often agree on a knife-only or pistol-only round. The knife round and pistol round arts announce it to both teams at once, in all chat.
For symbols that are single characters rather than pictures, such as stars and arrows, see the symbols page.
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Questions players ask
Are these the official Valorant icons?
No. The text arts in this theme are original pixel drawings made for Valoverse. The weapons are generic shapes, not models from the game. Official ability icons appear only on the agent pages, next to each agent's kit.
Can I combine an icon with my own text?
Not in a single message: text typed next to an art shifts its rows. Send the icon, then your text as a second message. For a banner with your own words, use the generator.
How are the icons drawn?
On a grid 26 pixels wide. Each chat character holds two pixels, one above the other, using the half-block characters ▀ and ▄. An icon 14 pixels tall therefore takes 7 chat rows.