Hedera is a New Linux Icon Theme Inspired By a Very Old One…

Header ― a new twist on an old fave

Specifically, the Tango project .

The Tango desktop project aimed to create a comprehensive and consistent set of icon guidelines foruse byopen-source software.

Andwas pretty successful. Many app developers adopted it, and it shipped by default (in one form or another) in various desktop environments and Linux distributions.

Trivia: theHumanity icon set that Ubuntu still useswas based, in part,off of Tango icons.

Tango fell out of favour round aboutthe same time that more modern-looking icon sets like elementary, Humanity and Faenza became popular.

But there’s still a naive, unassuming, non-flashy quality to the Tango icons ― something that Hedera aims to continue.

Hedera is descried by its author as “aclassic icon theme in the spirit ofTango!”.

And it really is.

It features bright, colourful icons without distinct borders. Icons are small and designed to render quickly.

The pack features ‘4200 common icons in most common sizes’ and has been tested withKDE3/4, Plasma 5, Xfce 4.12, LXQt and LXDE, MATE & Enlightenment.It hasn’t been tested with Unity, so if you plan on trying it out, bear in mind that your mileage may vary.

As icon packs go Hedera isnot the easiest one to get running ― but then neither was Linux back in the era it draws its aesthetic from.

To get ataste of Hedera on your own desktop you can headto the Github project page and follow the steps in the readm-me. Dogiveattention to the bugs and limitations listed in the FAQ , and notetheworkarounds needed on some desktop environments.