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Welcome to the Papirus icon theme's wiki! You can add advice for fellow users of the theme or other contributors to these pages.

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These pages can be edited freely by anyone, and we love to see new guides and sections. Please share what you learn here! We're really happy when somebody adds detailed notes and diagrams about how to do something tricky. New contributors can help out a lot just by correcting grammar and fixing typos.

Project background

• 📑 Development history: a timeline of Papirus's history since 2015

How to create Papirus icons

• 🔰 Icon creation basics
  • Pixel Alignment: why we align things to pixels
  • Multiple icon sizes: why Papirus needs multiple icon sizes
  • Recommended steps for creating a set of icons: suggested workflow to minimise work
  • Objects vs strokes vs paths: when and where to use different object types
  • Common tips and mistakes to avoid
• 📐 More advanced icon editing
  • Half pixels, aligned outlines, and key pixels: an overview of some more advanced techniques
  • An example icon: a worked example that demonstrates some of the techniques
  • Practical advice: when and where to apply the techniques to get a pixel-perfect shape
  • Making grids in Inkscape: making the default snapping grid more useful
  • Magic angles: creating pixel-perfect diagonals
• 📶 Monochrome icons
  • Introduction: theme-aware icons for panels etc.
  • KDE Color Scheme: icons that pick up KDE's colour scheme
  • GTK3+ Symbolic Icons: icons that pick up colours from the GTK3+ theme

Tips for power users

• 🩹 Hardcoded application icons: how to override upstream using hardcode paths in .desktop files

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