I've been working on a set of three Android Icon Themes, entirely in Inkscape.

One of the things that makes this set unique is the automated process that Inkscape has enabled: first, I draw a single icon and set up some colours.

Then, using a bunch of python scripts and Inkscape extensions I've written, it is converted into four different sizes, pixel grid aligned at those sizes (including multiple nodes and straight lines in complex shapes), has some effects applied (adjusted for every size), converted into two additional icon styles, and saved as PNG. It absolutely blows me away that this is possible, and really shows what can be done with open standards and OSS.

Here they are:



And here's a gallery with various screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/ez7QI

They're available for free over here on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=pub:Etched%20Design

And here's a thread on XDA-Developers for technical support/icon requests etc: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2463188

It's still very much in development, so I'm interested in hearing any technical or artistic critique that any of you have!

Great news!

Good to see it finally got working.
Personally I like the last row's style the most.
The embossing part of the small plates, having those small details in the shading -vertical light parts at the bottoms- are distracting from the icons in my opinion.

I understand the criticism of the highlights and have had a look at other options.

Unfortunately, it's very difficult to give any sort of indication of 3d rounded corners without some sort of highlight like that. Otherwise they simply look unrealistically flat.

It's also not really practical to do overly complex lighting on something that's meant to be as visually simple as an icon (especially one for a small screen such as a phone). That's actually what inspired the bottom row - I decided to take the stylised approach to its logical extreme.

Here's a slightly different version, that looks worse to my eyes and worse still on a phone screen:



Dropbox is messing up so I can't post a public SVG link for people to play around with.

Additionally, here is a new style with even more stylised lighting that I'm playing around with (only the top one is in a semi-serious state - the bottom one is just toying around):