Re: Looking for 'letter' icons, or a way of creating them easily

didier gaumet <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le 03/07/2026 à 12:13, Chris Green a écrit :
> I want some simple icons to use in a launcher in my XFCE panel. All I
> want is some letters of the alphabet - an icon containing a single
> letter.

for example, this:
https://pictogrammers.com/library/mdi/category/alpha-numeric/

> I can't find a free source of such icons at the moment, can anyone
> point me at one? Are there any Debian packages dedicated to icons?

Search for icon or icon-theme in the name of Debian packages, or search 
for icon in the description of packages

> Alternatively is there a simple way of creating an icon in .png format
> using a drawing program? I know I spent quite a while some time some
> time ago trying to create icons but I didn't do very well.

one method (imagemagick) exposed here (note the only one):
https://superuser.com/questions/488170/how-to-create-a-icon-from-a-picture-on-linux
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