Oranchelo Is A Fresh, Flat And Fabulous Icon Theme For Linux

Brief: This article shows you how to install Oranchelo icon theme on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Linux distributions.

If you remember the list of best icon themes for Ubuntu 16.04, you might have noticed that most of the icon themes were flat. It’s the design trend and I must admit that flat is fab.

Numix icon theme has ruled this domain for last few years but as it seems that the Numix developers are busy with other projects, there are new icon themes getting noticed and gaining popularity. Arc theme is one such example. It is now default theme in some Linux distributions including Apricity OS.

One such ‘new’ icon theme that caught my eye is Oranchelo. It’s flat as well and looks absolutely charming. Just have a look at some sample icons:

Install Oranchelo icon theme in Ubuntu and Linux Mint

Installing Oranchelo icon theme in Ubuntu and Linux Mint is really easy, thanks to its official PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:oranchelo/oranchelo-icon-theme
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oranchelo-icon-theme

If you don’t like PPA, you can install the .deb installer for Debian based Linux distributions.

Download Oranchelo Icon Theme

Install Oranchelo icon theme in Arch based Linux distributions

You can install Oranchelo in Arch based Linux distros from AUR using the command below:

yaourt oranchelo-icon-theme-git

For other distributions or source code, you can go to the GitHub repository:

Oranchelo on GitHub

I hope you know how to change icon theme in Linux Mint. For Ubuntu Unity, you can refer to this article to see how to change icon themes in Ubuntu.

To uninstall the Oranchelo icon theme installed via PPA, use the commands below:

sudo apt-get remove oranchelo-icon-theme
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:oranchelo/oranchelo-icon-theme


If you installed it via .deb file, you can uninstall it from the Software Center.

This is what Oranchelo icon theme look like on my Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon:

Cinnamon looks prettier, isn’t it? How do you like Oranchelo?