How can I change the cart icon in the Dawn theme?

Topic summary

Main issue: Replacing the cart icon in the Shopify Dawn theme did not take effect. The user deleted the SVG icon markup in a snippet and inserted a PNG via an tag, but the store preview showed no change.

Key suggestion: Update both icon-cart.liquid and icon-cart-empty.liquid files, which control the cart icon’s display states (filled vs. empty). This implies the icon appears in multiple templates/snippets, so changing only one may not reflect site-wide.

Attachments: Two screenshots were shared to point out the relevant files to edit. No code samples beyond the original SVG and PNG were central.

Status: No confirmation that the change worked. The discussion remains open with the next step being to modify both cart-related Liquid files and re-check the preview.

Summarized with AI on February 12. AI used: gpt-5.

Hi.

I want to change the cart icon in the Dawn theme.

I deleted the following code in the snippets folder:

Then, I uploaded the png file I created and added the link to the following code:

When I save and preview store there are no changes. I am new to this. Can anyone help?

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