In Ubuntu 18.04, the default icons showing whether the laptop is on battery or plugged in, are quite similar:

• → Plugged in
• → Battery

Its really easy to miss when the laptop accidentally unplugs.

Is there a way to make the icons different, or to make it more prominent when the laptop is on battery?

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2 Answers

From the attached pics in your Question gives clue that those icons are named as

battery-good-charging-symbolic.svg and
battery-good-symbolic.svg

There are similar Images with naming which can be understood easily.

First determine which icon theme is being used.

And then copying this Icon theme into ~/.icons directory and replacing the image with your preferred one but with same name of icon will change the symbol.

There is a good documentation here.

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I solved this by going to Tweaks → Top Bar → Turn on Battery Percentage.

Now the battery percentage is shown as a number, so if unplugged, the number shows as declining which is more attention grabbing than the icons.

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