Papirus-Black

A lean, blacked-out fork of the iconic Papirus icon theme.

This repository builds on the original Papirus base and dark variants, removing all unused styles (Light, color folders, and redundant sizes) and surgically merging the required parts to create a lean, minimal, all-black version of Papirus-Dark.

Result?

• 350MB → 98MB
• Zero bloat, zero confusion.
• Pure black folders across all desktop environments.
• Full compatibility with both GTK and KDE.

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Why?

The original Papirus repo is brilliant but bloated. It carries legacy variants, hardcoded folder colors, and size duplicates.

You get everything you need. Nothing you don’t.

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Installation

Manual (All DEs)

Clone the repo and place it where your system can see icon themes:

git clone https://github.com/OrynVail/Papirus-Black.git
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/icons/
cp -r Papirus-Black ~/.local/share/icons/
gtk-update-icon-cache -f ~/.local/share/icons/Papirus-Black

Then activate it in your system’s appearance settings or run:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface icon-theme 'Papirus-Black'

For NixOS Users

Add this to your home.nix:

customPapirusBlack = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
  pname = "papirus-dark-black";
  version = "1.0";
  src = ../../../themes/Papirus-Black;

  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgs.gtk3 ];

  installPhase = ''
    mkdir -p $out/share/icons
    cp -r . $out/share/icons/Papirus-Black
    gtk-update-icon-cache -f $out/share/icons/Papirus-Black
  '';

  passthru.iconThemeName = "Papirus-Black";
};

Use iconTheme.name = "Papirus-Black"; wherever applicable.

KDE Support

Plasma users should place it in:

~/.local/share/icons/

Apply it via System Settings → Appearance → Icons.

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Credit

• Original Icon Theme by the Papirus Development Team

• All original rights and trademarks belong to their respective owners.

• This repo repackages the GPLv3-licensed theme under open redistribution guidelines. No icons were harmed.

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License

Papirus icon theme is a free and open source project distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.