Frost
frosted-glass Linux icons where file types say what they are
Details
- External ID
- 49770157
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- frost
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 14
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6706539074960127
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 23, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- frosted-glass icon theme for linux desktops
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Frost is a visual design asset pack (Linux desktop icon theme) requiring graphic design artistry, vector illustration, and desktop environment icon specification knowledge rather than code generation.
What it would actually take: Building a complete Linux icon theme requires vector graphic design skills (Inkscape/Illustrator) to produce hundreds to thousands of scalable SVGs adhering to FreeDesktop icon naming and theming specifications. It also involves packaging and directory structuring for desktop environments like GNOME/KDE (index.theme definitions, context mapping, symlinking, and hicolor fallbacks).
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 390 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #137 of 391 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- frost-icon-theme · github · 2026-09-19 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- ClearLogo · hn · 2026-06-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MacDuo · github · 2026-09-12 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Toast, a by default in-terminal IDE · hn · 2026-09-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- xuan · github · 2026-09-19 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- dripfetch · github · 2026-09-10 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- hop · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AuroraFlow- · github · 2026-09-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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