Finder - Set file icon as plain text

I would like to know if there is a way to set files of a certain extention (in this case, .tex files) to be displayed as text files in finder. And no, I'm not talking about Quick Look, because when I press the space bar, the file does come up as a textfile would, i.e. Quick Look displays it as a text file. I'm talking about the icon that finder uses to display the file. Right now, Finder uses the icon of the default program used to open the file (TeXMaker). I would like it to display the .tex file just like a .txt file, i.e. the icon is "a sheet of paper with text on it".
I hope you can help me.

At first, when I used an other program for editing .tex files (TexShop), the .tex files were displayed as text files. They changed, however, when I installed TeXmaker and set it as the default program.

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