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.
The included symbols libraries so far are:
- 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
- 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 thesymbolsfolder. 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 > symbolsor pressCtrl+Shift+Y. You should see all the Material Design Icons sets as well as Octicons in the "Symbol set" dropdown.
Please fill a issue and provide a SVG reference. If available and well created, it will be fast to generate.
It is perfectly fine to use the inkscape UI for library development, but they won 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)
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: