Stylized Folder
1 · Overview
Stylized Folder is a lightweight Unity Editor extension by Zant Assets that lets you visually organize your Project window and Hierarchy by assigning custom icon colors, name highlight colors, and emoji badges to any folder, script, prefab, scene, or other asset — without touching a single line of code.
Works on any asset type
Folders, scripts, prefabs, scenes, audio clips, textures, and more.
Project & Hierarchy support
Style both Project window assets and scene GameObjects in the Hierarchy.
Child style inheritance
Propagate a parent's style to all child folders automatically.
Non-destructive
All styles are stored in a JSON file — no asset files are modified.
2 · Opening the Stylized Folder Window
There are two ways to open the Stylized Folder editor window:
Method A — Right-Click any asset or folder
Right-click on any folder, file, or asset in the Project window or right-click any GameObject in the Hierarchy window, then choose:
The window opens automatically targeting the item you right-clicked.
Method B — Click any asset, then open via Window menu
Select an asset first, then navigate to the top menu:
The window stays open as you click different assets. It automatically switches to show and edit the currently selected asset — no need to reopen it every time.
3 · The Editor Window — Interface Tour
The window is divided into five areas:
| Area | Purpose |
|---|---|
| 📋 Copy Style / 📌 Paste Style | Copy the full style of the current asset and paste it onto another |
| 🖌️ Color | Tint the asset's icon with any colour |
| 💡 Highlight | Draw a coloured band behind the asset's label in list views |
| 😄 Emoji | Overlay an emoji or Unity built-in icon badge on the asset icon |
| ⚙️ Options | Per-asset visibility toggles and child-folder inheritance |
The header always shows the name and type of the asset being edited
(e.g. Editing: Audio (Project Asset) or
Editing: Main Camera (Scene GameObject (SampleScene))).
4 · Setting an Icon Color
The Color section lets you tint the asset's icon with a fully custom colour. This is visible in both list view and large-icon grid view in the Project window.
How to set it
Click the colour swatch next to Icon Color. Unity's standard colour picker opens. Choose any colour — the icon in the Project window updates in real time.
Undo & Clear
- ↩ Undo — Reverts to the colour the asset had when the window was last opened for it.
- ❌ Clear — Removes the icon colour entirely, restoring the default Unity appearance. This button only appears when a colour is set.
A common convention is to use warm colours (red, orange) for high-priority folders and cool colours (blue, teal) for reference or read-only folders.
5 · Setting a Highlight Color
The Highlight section draws a coloured background strip behind the asset's name text in list-view and one-column view. The text colour is automatically adjusted to remain readable (dark text on light highlights, white text on dark highlights).
How to set it
Click the colour swatch next to Highlight Color. The alpha (A) channel controls opacity — lower alpha produces a subtle tint, higher alpha produces a strong band. The default opacity is 15%.
Undo & Clear
- ↩ Undo — Reverts to the highlight colour from when the window was opened.
- ❌ Clear — Removes the highlight; the label reverts to the standard Unity style.
6 · Adding an Emoji
Any asset can have a small emoji badge overlaid on its icon. In list view the emoji appears at the far-right of the row. In large-icon grid view it is displayed in the bottom-right corner of the icon.
Picking an Emoji
Click the 🔍 Pick Emoji button. The built-in Emoji Picker window opens with the following categories:
- 😀 Smileys & Emotion
- 🤚 Hand Gestures
- 👨 People
- 🐶 Animals
- 🌿 Plants & Nature
- 🍎 Food & Drink
- 🚗 Travel & Places
- ⚽ Activities & Sports
- 📱 Objects & Tools
- 📝 Office & Writing
- ❤️ Symbols
Scroll through the grid and click any emoji to apply it instantly. You can also choose Unity built-in icons (e.g. camera, light, audio icons) from the picker.
Undo & Clear
- ↩ Undo — Reverts to the emoji the asset had when the window was opened.
- ❌ Clear — Removes the emoji badge.
7 · Per-Asset Options & Child Inheritance
The ⚙️ Options section provides three visibility toggles and one inheritance toggle, all scoped to the currently selected asset.
| Toggle | Effect |
|---|---|
| Show Color for this asset | Hide/show the icon colour tint without deleting it |
| Show Highlight for this asset | Hide/show the highlight band without deleting it |
| Show Emoji for this asset | Hide/show the emoji badge without deleting it |
Apply Style to Child Folders
📂 Apply style to child folders (without overriding their own)
When this toggle is enabled, all child folders/assets that do not have their own style will inherit this folder's colour, highlight, and emoji. Children with their own explicit style are never overridden — the inheritance is purely additive.
Use this for top-level organisational folders such as Assets/Art or Assets/Audio
to automatically colour all sub-folders that haven't been individually styled.
8 · Styling Hierarchy GameObjects
Stylized Folder works identically for scene GameObjects in the Hierarchy window. Right-click any GameObject → 🌈 Stylized Folder to open the window targeting that object.
- The header will show
Editing: <ObjectName> (Scene GameObject (<SceneName>)). - Icon colours, highlights, and emojis all render directly in the Hierarchy list.
- Hierarchy styles are stored by scene name + object name, so renaming an object resets its style.
- Child inheritance also works in the Hierarchy — enable the toggle and all child GameObjects without their own style will inherit the parent's look.
Hierarchy styling is great for distinguishing manager objects, cameras, lighting rigs, or organisational empty GameObjects from regular scene content.
9 · Copy & Paste Style
The 📋 Copy Style and 📌 Paste Style buttons at the top of the window let you rapidly apply the same look to multiple assets.
Select source asset
Click the folder or asset whose style you want to copy.
Click "📋 Copy Style"
This captures the current colour, highlight, and emoji into an internal clipboard.
Select target asset
Click any other folder, file, or GameObject you want to style.
Click "📌 Paste Style"
The full style — colour, highlight, and emoji — is applied immediately.
The clipboard persists for the entire Editor session. You can paste the same style onto as many assets as you like without copying again.
10 · Works on Any File Type
Stylized Folder is not limited to folders. You can apply custom styles to any asset in your project:
- C# scripts (
.cs) - Prefabs (
.prefab) - Scenes (
.unity) - Textures, sprites, and atlases
- Audio clips (
.wav,.mp3, …) - Input Actions (
.inputactions) - ScriptableObjects and custom assets
- Any other file recognised by Unity's asset pipeline
11 · Global Settings & Data Storage
Global visibility toggles
Three global flags control whether colours, highlights, and emojis are rendered across the entire project, regardless of individual asset settings:
| Setting | Default | Effect when disabled |
|---|---|---|
| globalShowColors | On | All icon colour tints are hidden project-wide |
| globalShowHighlight | On | All highlight bands are hidden project-wide |
| globalShowEmojis | On | All emoji badges are hidden project-wide |
Where is the data saved?
All style data is persisted in a single human-readable JSON file located at:
This file is created automatically the first time you apply a style. Commit it to version control to share styles with your team. The file stores each asset's path, icon colour, highlight colour, emoji, visibility flags, and child-inheritance setting.
Because styles are stored by asset path (not GUID), renaming or moving an asset will cause its style to be lost. Re-apply the style after any rename.
12 · Quick Reference
| Action | How to do it |
|---|---|
| Open Stylized Folder window | Right-click asset → 🌈 Stylized Folder |
| Set icon colour | Click the swatch in the Color section |
| Remove icon colour | Click ❌ Clear in the Color section |
| Set highlight colour | Click the swatch in the Highlight section |
| Remove highlight | Click ❌ Clear in the Highlight section |
| Add emoji badge | Click 🔍 Pick Emoji and select from the picker |
| Remove emoji | Click ❌ Clear in the Emoji section |
| Undo last change | Click ↩ Undo in the relevant section |
| Copy style | Click 📋 Copy Style at the top of the window |
| Paste style | Select target, click 📌 Paste Style |
| Hide style without deleting | Uncheck the toggle in ⚙️ Options section |
| Propagate style to children | Enable "Apply style to child folders" in ⚙️ Options |
| Style a Hierarchy object | Right-click GameObject → 🌈 Stylized Folder |
| Reset everything for an asset | Clear colour, highlight, and emoji individually |
| Share styles with team | Commit Assets/Editor/StylizedFolderSettings.json |