by Eric-Mwangi·Workflow
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OEBS Icon Viewer earns its place in the blender_extensions library as a focused, free utility for developers who work with Blender's internal icons. It stays deliberately narrow, covering browsing, searching, and copying icon codes rather than broader export features, and lives right in the Text Editor where scripts are written.
OEBS Icon Viewer, an add-on by Eric-Mwangi, adds a lightweight panel to Blender's Text Editor sidebar for browsing the internal icon library visually. You open it by switching to the Text Editor, pressing N to reveal the sidebar, and clicking the Icon Viewer tab.
Visual search matches both icon names and visual appearance, so terms like trash, hand, eye, or sun surface relevant icons instantly. Clicking an icon copies its full code snippet, such as icon='FILE_FOLDER', to the clipboard. Icons are organized into categories by context, including Animation, Modeling, and Scripting, and the add-on is built to load thousands of icons without slowing the UI. A direct link to ui.blender.org/icons is included for the authoritative reference.
The current release, version 1.4.0, is compliant with Blender Extension standards and refines the search keywords. OEBS Icon Viewer is free and open source, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later, and compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer.
OEBS Icon Viewer is best for blender add-on developers and scripters who need to find and copy the right internal icon codes for their UI.
OEBS Icon Viewer is completely free to download and use.
OEBS Icon Viewer is compatible with Blender 4.2 LTS and newer. The current release is version 1.4.0, which the developer notes is fully compliant with Blender Extension standards, having removed sys.path modifications and direct execution blocks. Running a Blender build older than 4.2 falls outside its stated compatibility range, so 4.2 LTS is the baseline. For the authoritative reference on the icons themselves, the add-on also integrates a direct link to ui.blender.org/icons.
OEBS Icon Viewer lives in Blender's Text Editor sidebar. To open it, switch an area to the Text Editor, press N to reveal the sidebar, then click the Icon Viewer tab. From there you can type in the search bar to filter icons by name, such as TRASH, or by description, such as delete. Because the panel searches by both name and visual appearance, a term like hand, eye, or sun surfaces matching icons instantly.
OEBS Icon Viewer installs like a standard Blender extension. Download the release zip, open Blender, go to Edit > Preferences > Get Extensions, click the arrow icon at the top right, and choose Install from Disk, then select the zip file. You can also drag and drop the zip into Blender. The download is small at 11.4 KB. Once installed, open the Text Editor sidebar with N and click the Icon Viewer tab to start browsing.
OEBS Icon Viewer requests the Clipboard permission, and it uses this to copy icon names to your clipboard. Clicking an icon copies its full code snippet, such as icon='FILE_FOLDER', so you can paste it straight into your script. This is the only permission the extension requests. The copy behaviour is central to the tool, letting you go from finding an icon in the panel to using its code without retyping the identifier by hand.
OEBS Icon Viewer is listed as free here and is described as open source, released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. For the current licensing terms and the source code, check the developer's page on GitHub. The project is written entirely in Python and its releases are published there, so you can review how it works or follow updates directly from the repository.
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