papirus-icon-theme/tools/work

NOT USE NOW THIS INSTRUCTION, BECAUSE NOT FINISHED!!!

FOR DEVELOPERS and DESIGNERS:

It's easy :)

First draw icons for Papirus icon theme only! For Papirus Dark use script for change colors.

NOTE: If you draw monochrome icon for Papirus, please add version for Papirus Dark too!

Basic concepts

Papirus - it's SVG-based icon theme for Linux. Have mix material and flat style.

All elements have clear distinction and outlines. Also main feature - it's warm colors tone!

PLEASE not use very bright and toxic colors for Papirus!!!

Main icons

Now main icons have sizes 16px, 22px, 24px, 32px and 48px. Also available some 64px icons for Places and Mimes.

Why needed this more sizes for SVG?

Because if use single size for all - icons will be blurred.

It's important!!!

For all icons use ONLY template, because this icons alredy have clear SVG code (and some needed objects)!

Monochrome icons

Papirus now support KDE color scheme for monochrome actions, devices, places and panel icons

More info about that here

Now support only icons:

• actions (16px, 22px, 24px)
• devices (16px)
• places (16px)
• panel (22px, 24px)

It's important!!!

For monochrome icons use ONLY color pallete from template, becuase this icons have CSS style!!!

System Requirements

• linux
• bash
• inkscape
• npm
• svgo

For Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint users:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install inkscape npm
sudo npm install -g svgo

How doing this?

Open directory work and choose need category. On this directory alredy available template files for development.

Open on Inkscape template file and draw new icon and save on work category dir.

For example:

work/Papirus/apps/abricotine48.svg

NOTE: Please not forgot add size suffix for icon name - it's needed for right work scripts.

Steb by step for Papirus

• open template file on Inkscape
• delete not needed objects
• draw new objects
• save file as nameSIZE.svg (use lowercase registry for svg)
• draw icons for other sizes
• run script for clear icon from tools

For example:

./run_on_dirs.sh work/Papirus/apps

• fine, your icon fixed and clear
• now you can check icons
• if all fine - copy icon to icon theme folder, use script copy-to-theme.sh:

For example:

./copy-app-to-theme.sh

• clear work directory (not delete template files)
• all is ready! Now you commited changes to GitHub

Steb by step for Papirus Dark

work/Papirus-Dark have only monochrome icons with another CSS style.

• initially draw icons for work/Papirus and run scrip from tools run_on_dirs.sh
• copy files to work/Papirus-Dark directory, use script copy-to-work-dark.sh
• go to work/Papirus-Dark directory and run script colors-for-dark.sh
• now check your work
• copy files to Papirus-Dark icon theme, use script copy-to-theme.sh