Clarity Icon Theme is completely different from other icon themes because its purly based on Vector design. This theme is based on AwOken and Token, lots of shapes and basic color pallete was taken from these icons. Few icons was taken from Raphael . used some shapes from OpenClipart , Wikipedia, Humanity and AnyColorYouLike Themes. The rest of icons designed by developer by simplifying existed icons or logos. Two types of fonts used Impact and Cheboygan.
Icons are mostly monoshape, but some icons have additional elements. There are seven predefined color themes (in five colors) but you can also create your own.
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Available theme: violaceus violet/pink gradient lux_violaceus glossy variant canus grey gradient (default) dark_canus dark grey gradient caeruleus blue gradient lux_caeruleus glossy variant viridis green gradient luteus orage gradientAvailable Distribution logos are: arch, debian, fedora, gentoo, gnome, kubuntu, madriva, mint, suse, ubuntu, xfce, xubuntu and zenwalk
1) Install Clarity Icon Theme on Linux Desktop
Manually we can install the Clarity Icon Theme to all the Linux Desktop by cloning the developer github repository.
Clone Clarity Icon Theme
$ cd /usr/share/icons$ sudo git clone https://github.com/jcubic/Clarity.git
$ cd Clarity
[To change Theme Color]
$ sudo make [Name of the Theme]
[To change Distribution logo]
$ sudo make [Name of the Distribution]
[Reboot the system to take effect]
$ sudo reboot
2) Install Clarity Icon Theme on Ubuntu/Mint via PPA
Install Clarity Icon Theme to Ubuntu & Mint from PPA. To run change-theme script you must have installed zenity. In pop-up window select the theme and click ok.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jcubic/jcubicppa$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install clarity-icon-theme
[To change Theme Color]
$ gksu change-theme
[To change Distribution logo]
$ sudo make [Name of the Distribution]