How to install the Papirus Icon Theme on Ubuntu 16.04

For aquick way to give your Ubuntu desktop a quickrefresh try the ‘Papirus’ icon theme.

This icon pack boasts more than 1000 icons, with glyphs for most popular applications, includingicons for Clementine, Atom editor, Corebird and VLC.

A Shapely Modern Icon Set

A few days back wewrote about theKylin Icon Theme. Thisrobust set offers a ream ofrounded app icons,all of which adhere to the same ‘squircle’ design.

While this template helpscreates a uniform visualconsistency it also limits the familiar shapes and designs we’ve come to expect ― and indeed like ― of apps. VLC is a traffic cone, Clementine is an orange segment, system settings is a cog, etc.

Paprius icon theme is just as comprehensive as Kylin and equally asmodern looking. But iteschews the boxy rigidity in favour of form andshape, delivering glyphs that look distinct in singular yetmaintain a consistentlook and feel overall.

Install Papirus Icon Theme on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

To install on Ubuntu 16.04 run the following commands in a new Terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:varlesh-l/papirus-pack
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install papirus-gtk-icon-theme

The icon theme is designed to work withUnity, GNOME, Cinnamon and other GTK+ based desktop environments. A version for KDE users is also available.