Tools & Resources

A collection of tools and resources are available for those designing for the GNOME platform.

General Resources

• Color palette: Inkscape/GIMP format, reference table

• Cantarell font: pre-installed in GNOME-based distributions and available to download.

Apps

The following apps are all available to install:

• Icon Library: for finding icons to use in GNOME UI

• Typography: for selecting text styles and commonly used characters

• App Icon Preview: app icon creation assistant

• Symbolic Preview: symbolic icon creation assistant

• Color Palette: reference for the GNOME color palette

Toolkit

The following tools are useful for seeing how the different patterns and design elements work in practice:

• Adwaita Demo: a demo app for libadwaita. This can be installed from the gnome-nightly flatpak repository and is sometimes packaged by distributions as adwaita-1-demo.

• GTK inspector: can be used to inspect any GTK app

SVG Templates & Examples

The following templates can be used as a starting point for mockups and icons.

• App mockup template (SVG)

• App icon template (SVG)

Additionally, since GNOME design operates in the open, all its work is therefore publicly available, and can be freely reused. (However, be aware that not all of this work is up to date or follows the latest recommendations.)