Inkscape Open Symbols

Symbol libraries are sets of SVG symbols located in one SVG document. For the more technical audience, Inkscape searches for any valid SVG file with symbols (<symbol> element) in your system configuration directory (typically share/inkscape)

Why use Inkscape Open Symbols?

Inkscape 0.91 includes just five example libraries: Logic Symbols, AIGA/DOT Transportation Symbols, Map Symbols, Flow Chart Shapes, and Word Balloons (made by Martin Owens and Tavmjong Bah).

Inkscape Open Symbols adds a whole lot more!

Which symbols are included in Inkscape Open Symbols?

The included symbols libraries so far are:

Automattic Genericons Genericons are vector icons embedded in a webfont designed to be clean and simple keeping with a generic aesthetic.

CircuiTikZ This list of electronic components is intended to make drawing of schematics simple, fast and very flexible, using common vector image editors.

Dashicons Dashicons, the WordPress admin icon font.

EmojiOne the first complete, independent, open-source emoji set.

Entypo 411 carefully crafted premium pictograms by Daniel Bruce

• Entypo Icons Social Set, icons ported from Entypo's Social Extension SVG Set by Jacques Laroche.

Font Awesome Icons Font Awesome is a full suite of 675 pictographic icons for easy scalable vector graphics on websites, created and maintained by Dave Gandy.

Fork Awesome Fork Awesome is a fork of Font Awesome that accepts contributions.

Github Octicons GitHub's icon font

Gnome Icon Theme Symbolic This set contains a set of icons used by the GNOME desktop. The icons are used in the panel menu, and in nautilus and other applications, to represent the different applications, files, directories, and devices.

Google Material Design Icons

Humble UI A simple UX UI elements for your wireframes created by Xaviju

Ionicons The premium icon font for Ionic Framework.

Nautic Alphabets Three decorative sets of nautic alphabets from A to Z, one with signal flags, one with a sailor boy holding flags in different positions for signaling (color) and the outline variant of that.

Open Iconic An open source icon set with 223 marks in SVG, webfont and raster formats

StateFace USA States Symbol Set with all 50 states plus D.C. and a wee continental U.S. map by StateFace. Thanks to cleversomeday

Suru Icon Set Suru is the icon theme originally created for Ubuntu phones and tablets. Thanks to mivoligo for converting them to Inkscape symbols.

Taiga Icons Icon set from Taiga: a project management platform for agile developers & designers.

Weatherize A set of symbols for weather related events made by Jacques Laroche.

Symbol set licenses

• Apache 2.0
  • Google Material Design Icons
• CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Gnome Icon Theme Symbolic
• CC BY 4.0
  • Emoji one
• CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Entypo
  • Nautic Alphabets
  • Taiga Icons
  • Wheatherize
• GPL v2+
  • Dashicons
  • Genericons
• GPL v3+
  • CircuiTikZ
  • Suru
• MIT
  • Github Octicons
  • Humble UI
  • Ionicons
  • Open Iconic
  • StateFace
• SIL OFL 1.1
  • Font Awesome

Note: This repository contains multiple symbol sets with their own licenses. Using them requires you to be aware that you are subject to the license of the used symbol set. All symbol set licenses are listed in the README file and in their own file metadata. The LICENSE file refers to everything unrelated to the symbol sets.

How do I install Inkscape Open Symbols?

In Ubuntu and Debian, it is possible to easily install Inkscape Open Symbols with a package manager of your choice. Simply typing sudo apt-get install inkscape-open-symbols in a shell will install it for all users.

For other platform or distributions:

1. Grab the icon libraries you need by cloning the repo or downloading the ZIP. You can also save the SVG files to your system directly from GitHub.
2. Copy the individual SVG files into your Inkscape config folder under the symbols folder. If it's not there, create it.
   • For OS X and Linux, the local user directory is ~/.config/inkscape/symbols.
   • For Windows, the local user roaming directory is %APPDATA%\inkscape\symbols.
   • For Flatpak, use ~/.var/app/org.inkscape.Inkscape/config/inkscape/symbols
3. Launch Inkscape (close it first if it's already running).
4. Open Symbols from Object > symbols or press Ctrl+Shift+Y. You should see all icon sets in the "Symbol set" dropdown.

Available in Arch Linux and distributed through AUR

How can I request new symbols?

Please fill out an issue and provide a SVG reference. If available and well created, it will be fast to generate.

Why not do it from the UI?

It is perfectly fine to use the Inkscape UI for library development, but they won't be as useful for developers as when they are well generated, minimized and packed for use in production development in some cases. Some icons need to be SVG processed in order to be fully useful for both for designers and developers.

If you don't need to use it for web development you can watch this cool UI creation video: Creating symbol libraries in Inkscape

How can I contribute?

Give a star to the repo at https://github.com/PanderMusubi/inkscape-open-symbols

Upvote or help solve the following Inkscape issues regarding symbols:

• https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/2916
• https://github.com/flathub/org.inkscape.Inkscape/issues/95
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1514481
• https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web/-/issues/526

Check the CONTRIBUTING guide.