«QGIS»-friendly icons
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Description
Hi.
By adding fill and stroke definition, the icons could be made «QGIS» friendly. It adds possibility to changed both filled and stroke colours.
To proof the concept, a bash script based on 'sed' was created. Two sets of icons was generated – normal and with reverse colour scheme.
[colourful_qgis_icons.sh.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/20831192/colourful_qgis_icons.sh.txt)
Filled icons:

Outlined (reverse) icons:

I hope, somebody will find this useful.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the attached colourful_qgis_icons.sh.txt script and the repository's SVG icon sources. Determine which icon definitions need fill and stroke support and how the normal and reverse colour variants should be represented; done means the icon set supports the requested QGIS colour changes without breaking existing icons.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- bash
- Domain
- design
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100