The designer of this icon theme has implemented over 24,000 icons

May 30, 2014 11:40 GMT  ·  By

Sphere 1.4 v5 is an icon pack designed for people who don't like the flatness trend that is being used in most of the operating systems today, even if it's about Linux, Windows, or Mac OS.

The Sphere icon pack is made by Achim Karsch and features over 24.000 icons for the operating system, covering pretty much all the known applications out there.

“I really wanted to create another theme, but over the time I'm coming back to my old design Sphere. The most icons, you find in the web, are regtangled designed, looks like iOS design. I want to create something else, something special for linux systems. I think the sphere design looks good and is a opportunity for all those other icons out there.”

“And so I have this theme completely updated. The icons are new, the subfolder places has been completely changed. The mimetypes are completely new. Overall, it has become more than 24.200 (!) icons (including ln links),” said the designer.

Installing the icon theme is even easier than you would expect because users have access to a script that unpacks the archive, and moves all the required files to their appropriate locations.

A complete list of changes and improvements can be found on his deviantart entry. There is only one caveat. The icon pack is not free, but the price that the developer is asking is actually very small.

Keep in mind that he is doing a tremendous amount of work to design the icons, so the price is completely justified.