actually, so far, I've noticed that virtually every item drop that has a style associated with it, has it's icon in the style that it's made in. The icon's for helmets aren't universal - there's a breton helmet icon, a dunmer helmet icon, and so on - of course, you'd have to end up memorizing what each of the icons look like, because they're not particularly equal to their 3-d models, but the icons do look different, so you CAN, if you get used to the icons, tell if your blue sword is in orc style or redguard style, and so on.
of course, if there's an add-on for it, bully!
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