Nuvola is a free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 icon set under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license, created by David Vignoni

David Vignoni

David Vignoni is a graphical artist who specialises in icon design.Vignoni is the creator of the Nuvola icon set, which have been used in many projects including script.aculo.us and Prototype JavaScript Framework. He has designed icons for several web sites, including , , and...

. Originally created for desktop environment

Desktop environment

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s like KDE

KDE

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 and GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

, it is also available in packages for Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 and Macintosh. The final version, 1.0, contains almost 600 icons. The default set is in the PNG graphics format; an SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics

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 version is also available.

The application icons, in particular, colourfully represent a wide variety of commonplace and easily-recognised objects. Most icons are blue, but other colours are present as well.

Uses

Besides KDE

KDE

KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

 and GNOME

GNOME

GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

, Nuvola is used by the Pidgin

Pidgin (software)

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 instant messaging client, the Amarok

Amarok (audio)

Amarok is a cross-platform free and open source music player for KDE, but is released independently of the central KDE Software Compilation release cycle...

 media player and the KeePass

KeePass

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 password manager.
Nuvola is the default icon set on the OpenLab GNU/Linux distribution.
They are also used for many purposes on Wikimedia projects.

See also

• Bluecurve
  Bluecurve
  Bluecurve is a desktop theme for GNOME and KDE created by the Red Hat Artwork project. The main aim of Bluecurve was to create a consistent look throughout the Linux environment, and provide support for various Freedesktop.org desktop standards...
  
   – former default GPL icon set of Fedora
  Fedora (operating system)
  Fedora is a RPM-based, general purpose collection of software, including an operating system based on the Linux kernel, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat...
  
  
• Computer icon
  Computer icon
  A computer icon is a pictogram displayed on a computer screen and used to navigate a computer system or mobile device. The icon itself is a small picture or symbol serving as a quick, intuitive representation of a software tool, function or a data file accessible on the system. It functions as an...
  
  
• Crystal – LGPL icon set by Everaldo Coelho
  Everaldo Coelho
  Everaldo Coelho is a renowned Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator. He specializes in iconography, themes and user interface design. Everaldo's works include general illustrations, comics, children's books, corporate design and many other creative areas...
  
  
• Open Clip Art Library
  Open Clip Art Library
  The Open Clip Art Library project aims to create a collection of vector clip art that is free content.- History :The project started in early 2004 by Inkscape developers Jon Phillips and Bryce Harrington to collect designs of flags from all around the world, having been inspired by the efforts to...
  
  
• Oxygen Project
  Oxygen Project
  The Oxygen Project is a project created to give a visual refresh to KDE Plasma Workspaces.It consists of a set of computer icons, a window decoration for KWin, widget toolkit themes for GTK and Qt, and two themes for KDE Plasma Workspaces....
  
   – LGPL icon set for KDE
  KDE
  KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...
  
  
• Palette (computing)
  Palette (computing)
  In computer graphics, a palette is either a given, finite set of colors for the management of digital images , or a small on-screen graphical element for choosing from a limited set of choices, not necessarily colors .Depending on the context In computer graphics, a palette is either a given,...
  
  
• Tango Desktop Project
  Tango Desktop Project
  ]The Tango Desktop Project is an open-source initiative to create a set of design guidelines and to provide a consistent user experience for applications on desktop environments. The project has created a set of icons known as the Tango Icon Library, which is described as a "proof of concept"...
  
   – developers of a public domain
  Public domain
  Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
  
   icon set
• Theme (computing)
  Theme (computing)
  In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance details, used to customize the look and feel of an operating system, widget set or window manager....
  
  

External links

• Nuvola Icon Theme version 1.0, the official package distribution which contains the original KDE 3 compatible version of Nuvola
• Nuvola page on David Vignoni website Official source for original Nuvola packages and future development
• gnome-themes-extras, a package which contains a GNOME SVG version of Nuvola