Papirus Icon Theme is Available PPA For Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' and Linux Mint 18 'Sarah'


This icon pack boasts more than 1000 icons, with glyphs for most popular applications, including icons for Clementine, Atom editor, Corebird and VLC.

The icons use a playful colour palette and feature a subtle raised edge, giving them a semi-3D look.

Papirus Icon Theme is derived from Paper icon theme

Paper is a modern freedesktop icon theme whose design is based around the use of bold colours and simple geometric shapes to compose icons. Each icon has been meticulously designed for pixel-perfect viewing.

You can preview some of the Paper icons here, but for a better look you can visit the gallery.


Changelog:

- Fix more black icons
- Fix color css, applications-utilities, owncloud, utilities-terminal_su, kipi-panorama, gnome-subtitles, preferences-system-notifications
- Add icons cherrytree, crashplan, l4d, l4d2, insurgency, dods

How to Install Papirus Icon Theme :

To Install  Papirus Icon Theme on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Linux Mint 18 sarah Ubuntu derivative systems , open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Archlinux (AUR):
# GTK
yaourt -S papirus-icon-theme-gtk

# KDE
yaourt -S papirus-icon-theme-kde

GTK Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 (PPA):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:varlesh-l/papirus-pack
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-gtk-icon-theme

Kubuntu 16.04 and KDE Neon (PPA):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:varlesh-l/papirus-pack
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-pack-kde5

KDE4-distros Kubuntu 14.04, Mint 17 KDE (PPA):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:varlesh-l/papirus-pack
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install papirus-pack-kde4

After installation is Finished, Install Unity tweak tool for change icon themes on Ubuntu Desktop, like this :

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool 

 and open unity tweak tool :


choose icon menu and icon tab :


good luck :)