Inkscape Open Symbols

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

Inkscape 0.91 includes five example libraries: logic symbols, AIGA/DOT transportation symbols, map symbols, flow chart shapes and word balloons made by Martin Owens and Tavmjong Bah.

Which symbols are included?

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 Social Set
Google Material Design Toggle Set

A live preview of the icon set is available in Google Material Design github repo.

Github Octicons GitHub's icon font

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

Ubuntu Suru Icon Set Suru is the icon theme of Ubuntu for 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 gives you scalable vector icons that can instantly be customized. With the collaboration of elhombretecla for converting them to inkscape symbols.

Gnome Icon Set Purpose of this icon theme is to extend the base icon theme that follows the Tango style guidelines for specific purposes. This would include OSD messages, panel system/notification area, and possibly menu icons.

Gnome Icons Action Set
Gnome Icons Apps Set

How do I install them?

Grab the icon libraries you need 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 share directoy (typically share/inkscape) 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 directory appears to be %APPDATA%\Roaming\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 the Material Design Icons sets as well as Octicons 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 a issue and provide a SVG reference. If available and well created, it will be fast to generate.

Why not doing 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 if it is 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](Creating symbol libraries in Inkscape)

How can I contribute?

Pull Requests are more than welcome for your favorite open source icon sets. Please don't hesitate to contact me for any help or mentorship.

If you develop by yourself but not sure how to develop this library please read my article on medium on how to create you own icon libraries for inkscape 0.91

Awesome Icon Set libraries to be included in the future could be: