Icarus includes a variant inspired by Material 3 Expressive. It brings softly tinted surfaces, rounded cards, pill-shaped controls, and flower-like accents to the familiar Icarus layout. Navigation items and buttons change shape on hover or keyboard focus, while menus open with spring-like motion.

Icarus includes a second variant called Cyberpunk, for those who like dark-themed blogs. It takes the look of a city at night from cyberpunk fiction: a dark screen lit by neon signs in yellow, cyan, and magenta, panels framed like a heads-up display with chamfered corners, scanlines, and a neon grid running to the horizon at the bottom of the page. The titles of the posts glitch when you hover over them. It should be noted that it uses recent web styling features that are not working correctly in some legacy browsers, including Internet Explorer and legacy Microsoft Edge.

The default and Material 3 Expressive variants of Icarus can be dark, either all the time or only when the browser or operating system of your visitors asks for a dark color scheme. This has long been requested by the community (#1108). The dark colors live in the same stylesheet as the light ones, so there is no extra request. This post itself is always displayed with the dark appearance, while the rest of this site uses appearance: auto and follows the color scheme of your system.

Apart from the tag helpers supported by Hexo natively, as described in Hexo Built-in Tag Helpers, Icarus also offers several other useful tag helpers to customize the display of your content.

Tag plugins are different from post tags. They are ported from Octopress and provide a useful way for you to quickly add specific content to your posts.