KDE Artwork Guidelines  |
This handbook contains various guidelines that should be considered before creating artwork intended for use within the default KDE. (Most of these articles are excerpts from the wiki.kde.org.)
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KDE Icon Guidelines  |
This handbook contains various guidelines that should be considered before creating icons intended for use within the default KDE. (Most of these articles are excerpts from the wiki.kde.org.)
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Artwork & Free Software Licensing |
Very well written article of some of the pitfalls we as free software graphic artists face. This is a must read!
http://www.linux.com/feature/119212
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Download the Oxygen color palette!-author the Oxygen developers   |
Oxygen has one color palette with two parts. “Normal” colors have sober tonalities of the most needed colors. These are used mostly for mimetypes, folders, system applications and actions. Vibrant colors are more saturated used to emphasize important action icons on a toolbar, for rich media mimetypes, for application icons and, generally speaking, used when there is need to focus the attention of the user on a particular element, helping the user to find his way by following a “subliminal” color language.

Figure 4

To download the Oxygen color palette for the Gimp: right click this link, then click Save As.

To use this palette in Inkscape:
1) In your .inkscape folder make another folder called palettes.
2) Put the oxygen.gpl file in that folder.
3) Restart Inkscape
4) Select the Oxygen palette in the Swatches dialog (Ctrl+Shift+W).

The Oxygen color palette is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

Thanks to Nuno Pinheiro for giving us permission to publish the Oxygen color palette on this site.


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Official KDE Fonts  |

Taken from the KDE Corporate Identity Guidelines on wiki.kde.org.

"Typeface

The KDE project uses a typeface called "Bitstream Vera Sans Bold" for all printed and screen material.

Bitstream Vera Sans Bold

As the Bitstream Vera family only provides support for the standard
TrueType character set (Latin1). To provide support for additional
languages the font has been extended by third parties. As the Bitstream
Vera font license doesn't allow modifications of the font using the
original font name the extended versions are available under new names:
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Wallpaper Guidelines  |

A wallpaper should:

-be consistent in terms of style with the other desktop artwork.

-appear rather neutral in terms of taste. In other words a default wallpaper should be appropriate for both corporate and home use.

-use the current Oxygen color palette.

-not be distracting. This means that it shouldn't be too colorful and shades shouldn't change too rapidly. This is especially valid for the upper left area.

-be designed with the desktop icons and the kicker in mind. Ideally a default wallpaper should show just a single color on the upper 30%, the left 30% of the screen and the kicker area. The reason is that people place their icons in these places and having a single color without any other shapes and picture elements makes it easier to recognize them. Simplicity in these areas is very important.
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Splash Screen Guidelines  |

Splash Screens give us something nice and informative to look at while KDE is being loaded.

A splash screen should:

- use the Oxygen color palette.

- use icons from the default icon theme.

- must NOT use icons that are associated with a particular platform or distribution (e.g. a tux icon).
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Proper use of the KDE logo.  |

Taken from the KDE Corporate Identity Guidelines on wiki.kde.org.


Detailed KDE Logo (Lineart)

KDE Logo Detailed SVG, KDE Logo Detailed PNG (3000x3000 Pixels)
screen design: to be used in large appearances (> 128x128 pixel), e.g. watermarks, patterns etc.

print design: for use in corporate context in printed matters (letter
heads, business cards, etc.)
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Proper use of the KDE name  |
Acceptable names:

K Desktop Environment -  This is our formal name; it is
especially used on all communications intended for external groups
which might not be familiar with KDE yet.

KDE - This is our informal name and abbreviation; it is our preferred casual name.

Do not use different capitalization and hybrid forms, such as:
kde, K desktop environment, KDE Desktop Environment (used upper case
and stand-alone -- note that there are no restrictions for the (lower
case) descriptive usage of "the KDE desktop environment" in continous
text).
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The KDE Crystal Theme Icon License Add-on  |

This copyright and license notice covers the images in this directory.
Note the license notice contains an add-on.

KDE Crystal theme icons.
Copyright (C) 2002 and following years KDE Artists
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation, version 2.1 of the License.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
with this library; if not, write to the

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