Nordic Theme on Ubuntu Desktop GNOME 3

Nordic is currently ranked #10 most popular GTK3 theme on OpenDesktop.org. This article exposes this theme beauty and explains how to install every component on Ubuntu 18.04. You can practice the installation procedures on other distros as long as it uses GNOME 3 as the user interface. Enjoy!

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About Nordic Theme

• Type: GTK3 theme
• Compatible with: GNOME 3.28 or later
• By: Eliver Lara
• Based on: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord
• URL: https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1267246/
• Source code: https://github.com/EliverLara/Nordic
• Donate: https://www.paypal.me/EliverLara

Nordic is a theme created by Eliver Lara based on Nord color palette. Being GTK3, it's compatible with distros using GNOME, MATE, and XFCE. This article will show Nordic on Bionic and how to install it.

About Nord Color Theme

Nordic is based on Nord color palette, the 15 arctic, north-bluish colors available freely at GitHub. This color palette is usable with free software image editors like GIMP, Inkscape, and Krita. It is licensed under free, non-copylefted MIT license.

Showcase

This is how Nordic GTK3 theme appears on Ubuntu Bionic Beaver. It includes not only the toolkit theme, but also the Shell theme so we can cover all buttons and workspace appearances.

How to install

There are several packages of Nordic theme you can download from opendesktop.org/p/1267246 at Files section. What you need to download are basically only two:

• Nordic.tar.gz
• Nordic-Folders.tar.xz

Install content of Nordic.tar.xz to ~/.themes. Install content of Nordic-Folders.tar.xz to ~/.icons. Simply create both directories if they didn't exist.


Finally, to enable it, use GNOME Tweaks. What you need to switch are:

• Applications: Nordic
• Icons: Nordic Folder
• Shell: Nordic

 See illustration below. 


Enjoy!

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