diff --git a/quartz.config.ts b/quartz.config.ts
index b3db3d60d..31dd5a495 100644
--- a/quartz.config.ts
+++ b/quartz.config.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ const config: QuartzConfig = {
       Plugin.CrawlLinks({ markdownLinkResolution: "shortest" }),
       Plugin.Description(),
       Plugin.Latex({ renderEngine: "katex" }),
+      Plugin.LucideIcons(),
     ],
     filters: [Plugin.RemoveDrafts()],
     emitters: [
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
index 8e2cd844f..a6173cca7 100644
--- a/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
+++ b/quartz/plugins/transformers/index.ts
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ export { SyntaxHighlighting } from "./syntax"
 export { TableOfContents } from "./toc"
 export { HardLineBreaks } from "./linebreaks"
 export { RoamFlavoredMarkdown } from "./roam"
+export { LucideIcons } from "./lucide"
diff --git a/quartz/plugins/transformers/lucide.ts b/quartz/plugins/transformers/lucide.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fa2781bc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/quartz/plugins/transformers/lucide.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+import { Element, Literal, Root } from "hast"
+import { visit } from "unist-util-visit"
+import { QuartzTransformerPlugin } from "../types"
+
+function rehypeLucideIcons(verbose: boolean = false) {
+  return (tree: Root) => {
+    visit(tree, "text", (node: Literal, index: number | undefined, parent: any) => {
+      if (
+        typeof node.value === "string" &&
+        typeof index === "number" &&
+        parent &&
+        parent.children &&
+        Array.isArray(parent.children)
+      ) {
+        // Replace the first match of a Lucide icon tag in this node.
+        // Once the node is updated with the icon element, it will trigger a
+        // new visit call to this node and recursively replace all icon tags.
+        const originalText = node.value
+        const lucidePattern = /:luc_([a-z_]+):/
+        const lucideTag = originalText.match(lucidePattern)
+
+        if (lucideTag) {
+          const [iconTag, iconName] = lucideTag
+          const tagStart = lucideTag.index ?? 0
+
+          let replacedText: Array<Literal | Element> = []
+
+          if (tagStart > 0) {
+            replacedText.push({
+              type: "text",
+              value: originalText.substring(0, tagStart),
+            })
+          }
+
+          const lucideIconElement: Element = {
+            type: "element",
+            tagName: "i",
+            properties: {
+              class: `lucide lucide-${iconName}`,
+              "data-lucide": iconName,
+              "aria-hidden": "true",
+            },
+            children: [],
+          }
+          replacedText.push(lucideIconElement)
+
+          if (verbose) {
+            console.log(
+              `[LucideIcons] Replaced markdown :luc_${iconName}: with HTML Lucide icon "${iconName}"`,
+            )
+          }
+
+          const remainingText = originalText.substring(tagStart + iconTag.length)
+          if (remainingText) {
+            replacedText.push({
+              type: "text",
+              value: remainingText,
+            })
+          }
+
+          parent.children.splice(index, 1, ...replacedText)
+        }
+      }
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+export const LucideIcons: QuartzTransformerPlugin = () => {
+  return {
+    name: "LucideIcons",
+    htmlPlugins(ctx) {
+      return [() => rehypeLucideIcons(ctx?.argv?.verbose || false)]
+    },
+    externalResources() {
+      return {
+        js: [
+          {
+            src: "https://unpkg.com/lucide@latest",
+            loadTime: "afterDOMReady",
+            contentType: "external",
+          },
+          {
+            script: "lucide.createIcons();",
+            loadTime: "afterDOMReady",
+            contentType: "inline",
+          },
+        ],
+      }
+    },
+  }
+}
+
+export default LucideIcons
diff --git a/quartz/styles/base.scss b/quartz/styles/base.scss
index 14e6ae674..dda895972 100644
--- a/quartz/styles/base.scss
+++ b/quartz/styles/base.scss
@@ -639,3 +639,9 @@ iframe.pdf {
   transition: width 0.2s ease;
   z-index: 9999;
 }
+
+.lucide {
+  /* render Lucide icons proportional to font size */
+  width: 1em;
+  height: 1em;
+}