Papirus is a free and open source SVG icon theme for Linux, based on Paper Icon Set with a lot of new icons and a few extras, like Hardcode-Tray support, KDE colorscheme support, Folder Color support, and others.

Android version available here.

Papirus icon theme is available in five variants:

• Papirus
• Papirus Dark
• Papirus Light
• ePapirus (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)
• ePapirus Dark (for elementary OS and Pantheon Desktop only)

• Installation
  • Ubuntu and derivatives
  • Debian and derivatives
  • Papirus Installer
  • Snap
  • Third-party packages
• Hardcoded icons
  • Hardcoded application icons
  • Hardcoded tray icons
  • Steam runtime icons
• KDE colorscheme
• Folder's color
• Extras
• Recommendations
• Manual fixes
• Icon request
• Contributing
• Donate
• License

You can install Papirus from our official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:papirus/papirus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme  # Papirus, Papirus-Dark, and Papirus-Light
sudo apt-get install epapirus-icon-theme # ePapirus, and ePapirus-Dark for elementaryOS only

or download .deb packages from here.

Debian users also can install Papirus from our PPA, but the commands will differ:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/papirus/papirus/ubuntu jammy main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/papirus-ppa.list"
sudo wget -qO /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/papirus-ppa.asc 'https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x9461999446FAF0DF770BFC9AE58A9D36647CAE7F'
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-icon-theme

Use the script to install the latest version directly from this repo (independently of your distro).

You may use environment variables to control WHERE, WHAT, and FROM you install:

• DESTDIR - the destination directory for installing icon themes (Defaults DESTDIR=/usr/share/icons)
• EXTRA_THEMES - additional icon themes that you want to install alongside Papirus icon theme (Defaults EXTRA_THEMES="ePapirus ePapirus-Dark Papirus-Dark Papirus-Light")
• TAG - a branch or tag if you want to install a specific version of the icon theme (Defaults TAG=master)

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | sh

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.icons" sh

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="$HOME/.local/share/icons" sh

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-install | env DESTDIR="/usr/local/share/icons" sh

Use this interactive script to completely remove Papirus icon theme on your system.

wget -qO- https://git.io/papirus-icon-theme-uninstall | sh

Packages listed in this section are third-party packages. If you have a problem or a question, please contact the package maintainer.

Please note that some packages in the list may be outdated, open Repology to find out package versions.

Some software uses an absolute path instead of the icon name in a .desktop file or in the source code which makes them unthemable.

To deal with hardcoded application icons we recommend using hardcode-fixer. Papirus supports most of the applications in the list. If hardcode-fixer doesn't support your favorite app yet, please open an issue here or edit your .desktop file manually.

To fix hardcoded tray icons Papirus supports Hardcode-Tray script. A list of supported applications is available here.

sudo -E hardcode-tray --conversion-tool RSVGConvert --size 22 --theme Papirus

Size recommendations:

• Unity 22px
• KDE 22px
• GNOME 22px (see for more info)
• XFCE 22px (see for more info)
• Pantheon 24px
• Cinnamon 16px
• LXQt 16px

To fix icons of running Steam games, you can use Steam Icons Fixer script, that will connect all icons available from our icon theme with your installed games.

Support for monochrome icons for KDE colorscheme is now available:

• Papirus - for dark plasma theme & light color scheme
• Papirus Dark - for dark plasma theme & color scheme
• Papirus Light - for light plasma theme & color scheme

Papirus has Folder Color v0.0.80+ support that allows you to change a color of a folder.

Available colors:

For KDE, colors of individual folders can be changed using dolphin-folder-color.

Also, you can use our papirus-folders script to apply the color of folders system-wide.

• Papirus themes for FileZilla
• Papirus theme for SMPlayer
• Papirus themes for Claws Mail
• Papirus themes for Thunderbird
• Papirus theme for aMule

• Recommended use Papirus icons alongside one of the following GTK themes:
  • Arc theme
  • Materia theme
• For KDE, our recommendation is:
  • Arc KDE
  • Materia KDE

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications/
cp /usr/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
desktop-file-edit --set-icon=pop-shop ~/.local/share/applications/io.elementary.appcenter.desktop

sudo sed -i.orig 's/white/#d3dae3/g' /usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/cinnamon/cinnamon.css

gsettings set org.pantheon.desktop.wingpanel use-transparency false

echo "export GTK_THEME=elementary" >> ~/.profile

• Application name
• Icon name (see desktop-file option Icon on /usr/share/applications)
• Original icon image
• Use tray? Tray icon name. Hardcoded?
• Small description and/or a link to the official webpage

We welcome user contributions. If you don't know where to start, we've compiled a list of things we would like to see in your pull request:

• new icons for missing applications
• symbolic links to an existing icon
• resolving open issues
• spelling, grammar, phrasing
• improvements to our scripts

Inside tools/work you will find a step-by-step guide, an environment, and tools that will help you:

• create a new icon from template
• make a symlink to an existing icon
• edit an existing icon
• convert your icon to all variants of the theme

We are waiting for your pull requests and would love to see this icon theme become as complete as possible.

If you would like to support development by making one-time donation or by becoming a supporter, please visit our page on Buy Me a Coffee.

Papirus icon theme is free and open source project distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.

Every logo in this icon theme is owned by the respective trademark holder. We have not received approval to create these logos from any of the trademark owners, and the existence of an icon in this repository is in no way supported by the trademark owner.

Where possible, we stayed true to the branding and official guidelines.

If you are a trademark holder or application owner for one of these applications and disapprove of the icons we've created for your application, please submit an issue to this repository.