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:

Google Material Design Icons

Google Material Design Action Set
Google Material Design Alert Set
Google Material Design AV Set
Google Material Design Communication Set
Google Material Design Content Set
Google Material Design Device Set
Google Material Design Editor Set
Google Material Design File Set
Google Material Design Hardware Set
Google Material Design Image Set
Google Material Design Maps Set
Google Material Design Navigation Set
Google Material Design Notification Set
Google Material Design Places Set
Google Material Design Social Set
Google Material Design Toggle Set

(A live preview of this icon set is available at the Google Material Design github repo.)

Github Octicons GitHub's icon font

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

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

Ubuntu Suru Actions Set
Ubuntu Suru Apps Set
Ubuntu Suru Devices Set
Ubuntu Suru Mimetypes Set
Ubuntu Suru Status Set

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.

Font Awesome Brands Set
Font Awesome Solid Set
Font Awesome Regular Set

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.

Gnome Symbolic Action Set
Gnome Symbolic Apps Set
Gnome Symbolic Categories Set
Gnome Symbolic Devices Set
Gnome Symbolic Emblems Set
Gnome Symbolic Emotes Set
Gnome Symbolic Mimetypes Set
Gnome Symbolic Places Set
Gnome Symbolic Status Set

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dashicons Dashicons, the WordPress admin icon font.

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

Ionicons The premium icon font for Ionic Framework.

SJJB Map Icons by SJBB Management, a simple consistent set of vector icons suitable for cartographic use, created specifically to be used by Open Street Map. All icons are available in a square and in an inverted version.

SJJB Map Icons Accommodation Set
SJJB Map Icons Amenity Set
SJJB Map Icons Barrier Set
SJJB Map Icons Education Set
SJJB Map Icons Food Set
SJJB Map Icons Health Set
SJJB Map Icons Landuse Set
SJJB Map Icons Money Set
SJJB Map Icons Place of Worship Set
SJJB Map Icons POI Set
SJJB Map Icons Power Set
SJJB Map Icons Shopping Set
SJJB Map Icons Sport Set
SJJB Map Icons Tourist Set
SJJB Map Icons Transport Set
SJJB Map Icons Water Set

Symbol sets licenses

Dashicons: GPL v2+
Emoji one: CC BY 4.0
Entypo: CC BY-SA 4.0
Font Awesome: SIL OFL 1.1
Genericons: GPL v2+
Gnome Icon Theme Symbolic: CC BY SA 3.0
Google Material Design Icons: Apache 2.0
Humble UI: MIT
Open Iconic: MIT
SJJB Map Icons: CC0 Public Domain Dedication
StateFace: MIT
Taiga Icons: CC BY-SA 4.0
Github Octicons = MIT
Suru = GPL v3+
Wheatherize: CC BY-SA 4.0
CircuiTikZ GPL v3+
Ionicons MIT

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:

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.
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.

Launch Inkscape (close it first if it's already running).
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 derivated through AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/inkscape-open-symbols-git/

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?

Check the CONTRIBUTING guide. :D

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