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

didier gaumet <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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/
> 
That's the sort of thing I was looking for, thank you.


> > 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

That's for creating an icon from a picture, I don't have pictures of
letters. However it might be handy for some other icons I'd like to
create. :-)