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

Chris Green wrote: 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.

For a similar project, I went to Wikimedia (the Wikipedia media
collection, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) and
found suitable images, then used imagemagick (packaged in Debian
since forever) to convert them to a suitable size and format.

-dsr-