Auric Icons: Modern

An original 720-icon modern SVG library plus a production file-and-folder icon theme designed for the 16 px VS Code Explorer.

Why Modern

• 720 library icons across Simple Modern and Sharp Modern, each in color, mono, outline, and duotone.
• 408 theme assets with a distinct file silhouette, true open/closed folder pairs, semantic colors, four framework packs, and custom associations.
• Smart search and insert: synonyms, fuzzy ranking, file-aware recommendations, multi-cursor insert, and language-sensitive output.
• Nine copy formats: raw SVG, JSX, React component, HTML, Markdown, CSS, data URI, self-contained image tag, icon name, and catalog path.
• Likes, recent icons, hover previews, and keyboard access, fully offline.

One explorer across installed collections

Install Modern alone or alongside Auric Icons: Drawn and Auric Icons: Playful. The extensions elect one deterministic host and render one Icon Studio with a Library filter, source badges, and the union of every collection's variants. Likes and recent history remain with the extension that owns each icon.

Use the library

1. Open the Auric Icons: Modern Activity Bar view or run Open Icon Library.
2. Search by name, concept, or synonym; use Category, Style, and Library filters.
3. Choose Auto or an explicit variant. Auto follows the active editor context.
4. Select Insert, Copy as…, Save SVG As…, or Open SVG Source.

Useful shortcuts:

Activate and configure the file-icon theme

Run Preferences: File Icon Theme and choose Auric Icons: Modern, or run Auric Icons: Activate Icon Theme.

The theme maps 265 file extensions, 462 exact filenames, and 265 folder names. Changing a setting regenerates a derived manifest; the pristine base remains intact.

Library settings live under auricIcons.library.*: default variant, page size, smart insert, recommendations, guide, density, and hover previews. The explorer remembers its Auto/Light/Dark preview surface locally.

Compatibility and installation

• VS Code 1.85.0 or newer.
• Compatible with forks that preserve VS Code's extension and icon-theme APIs.
• No telemetry and no network access at runtime.

After Marketplace publication:

code --install-extension auric-artisan.auric-artisan-modern-icon

For a local launch build, run npm run package:extensions from Auric-Artisan-Icon-Library, then install the matching VSIX from release/.

Related collections

• Auric Icons: Drawn
• Auric Icons: Playful

Accessibility, privacy, and license

The icon-theme geometry is checked at 16 px, colors are not the only identity cue, and library controls support keyboard focus and announcements. Personalization is stored only in VS Code extension storage. Free to use for any purpose; redistribution and resale are not permitted — see LICENSE. Inter letterforms are outlines derived under SIL OFL 1.1.