Frost is a Linux icon theme that gives folders, apps, file types and top-bar status icons a consistent frosted-glass look: two glass shapes with a white glyph on top, vivid colour to indicate kind, and short labels at 48 px to name exact file types. It ships 134 hand-drawn file-type icons (JSON, Markdown, lock files, certificates, Dockerfile, etc.), pixel-hinted small sizes (16-256 px with @2x), and symbolic SVG status icons for GNOME Shell so Wi‑Fi, VPN, Bluetooth, volume, microphone (orange while active), battery and night light are legible and recoloured by the shell. It deliberately avoids redrawing trademarked logos (brand apps fall back to Papirus/Adwaita) and includes fixes for GNOME misclassified developer files; an optional MIME add-on makes those fixes persistent per user.
Installation offers a one-line script that places Frost in ~/.local/share/icons (with an option to include the MIME add-on), manual tarball install, or building from source using Bun and Python 3. Compatibility targets GNOME 50 / GTK 4.22 and Ubuntu 26.04, with glass baked into PNGs so it works across GTK3, GTK4 and Qt/KDE. The repository documents design rules, build pipeline, coverage and contribution guidance, is MIT-licensed, credits inspirations and tooling, and provides a verification step to lint and check every shipped icon.
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