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Cawnonical: a new full system material icon theme that completely adapts to your accent colour (www.pling.com)
submitted 5 days ago by Crow@lemmy.world to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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[Reposted because I got the title wrong]

So as the title explains, while this theme may be visually similar to others, it completely changes colours to match your user accent colour (I also have versions for text colour and solid colours because I could).

I wanted a theme where I could see my colours everywhere, so I made one. (Other reasons too, but this is the most important).

I’ve also made a bunch of playful little changes to help with accessibility like reworking the settings icons.

All icons are SVG files, single layer (a few exceptions), and have been simplified to load faster.

I hope you all enjoy it.

I will be regularly updating it to add more app icons and new actions/ icons as they show up in updates.

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[-] tomatoely@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

These look great! May I ask what program did you use to make them?

[-] Crow@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

A bunch! First I used Affinity Designer to work on the more complex icons, then I have another SVG editor called Boxy I use for smaller edits because it doesn’t mess with metadata. Then I used many terminal commands to mass edit the files, such as applying a colour fill or the accent fill. I’ve got another app that optimized the SVG files into similar structures to also help with the terminal commands. Also I found this cool app on my Mac that lets me export an entire font as individual SVG files, so it let me add the whole Google Noto emoji library as proper glyphs that work with my theme. I also ran some command on the emojis to rename them to their proper emoji names from their Unicode ID. I also used a spreadsheet to sort out my commands and colours.

So plenty of apps! 😅

this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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