Introducing a simple, muted and minimalist range of icons to the collection of Luminous Folder Icons.

Inspired by a winter landscape in black and white. Greys, browns with patches of melting ice and snow. Ten icons in colours borrowed from winter: Black, Midnight, Coal, Graphite, Pencil, Thunder, Aluminum, Silver, Pearl and White.

< — Save Luminous Greyscale Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Perhaps the easiest and most consistent, yet flexible, way to make your desktop more productive is to use folder icons in different colors to color code your projects.

One example is to assign a color to a type of project. For instance, use birch green folder icons for your work projects and autumn brown folders for personal projects.

Another method is to use colors to indicate work flow or actions. Use one color for your urgent actions, one for projects on hold, one for stuff that needs to be sorted out, one for downloads, one for inspiration or brainstorming, one for research and yet another for your completed and filed projects.

Ready Steady Go Folder Icons are designed to help you color code your projects. Think of them as a spa makeover for your desktop!

With a total of twelve shades of red, yellow and green you can use Ready Steady Go to indicate how urgent a project is.  Red for urgent, yellow for medium or projects on hold and green for finished projects.

To bring you even more options, there are four more sets of Luminous Folder Icons: purple, blue, pink, gray, and orange.

To learn how to customize your icons visit this tutorial.

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Sunny and dynamic orange radiates happiness and is an antidepressant in the form of colour! A colour that brings attention to your folders and creates a stimulating, warm and inviting environment.

Luminous Orange Folder Icons is part of the series of Luminous folder icons, created to help you keep your desktop both tidy and gorgeous by colour coding your projects.

Orange is the colour of optimism, adventure and communication. Juicy, generous, sociable, spontaneous, energetic, enthusiastic, flamboyant and vivid.

Joyous orange is a powerful healing colour, it lifts our spirits, helps us look on the bright side and recover from grief. Rejuvenating orange helps us forgive and move on.

Here are eight shades of orange folder icons: Satsumas, Orange Peel, Pumpkin, Jack-o’-lantern, Cinnamon, Orange Rose, Cayenne, and Peach!

< — Save Luminous Orange Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

This volume of icons is designed to make it easy to customize your digital environment, helping you stay focused and organized by color coding your projects. Think of it as a stimulus package for your desktop!

Detoxing your desktop and keeping it uncluttered is an easy and enjoyable task with Ready Steady Go Luminous Folder Icons.

One way to manage your projects with ease, is to use these folder icons to color code your folders, indicating how urgent a project is. Red for urgent, yellow for medium and green for finished projects.

With a total of twelve folder icons in shades of red, yellow and green, these folder icons are designed to kick start your desktop with an uncluttered, productive and beautiful desktop environment!

4 red folder icons: Brick Red, Garnet, Crimson and Vermillion.
4 yellow folder icons: Autumn Oak, Amber, Lemon and Naples Yellow.
4 green folder icons: Pine, Olive Green, Birch and Lime Green.

< — Save Ready Steady Go Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Bringing the beach to your desktop with salty breezes, blue lagoons and the feeling of sand between your toes.

Inspired by water, make your desktop personal with this volume of fifteen icons in colours borrowed from the beach: Denim, Blue Bayou, Blue Ink, Cobalt Blue, Deep End Of The Pool, Ocean, Sky, Fjord Blue, Royal Blue Ink, Navy, Lagoon, Misty Lavender, Turquoise, Marine and Sand.

< — Save Luminous Blue Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

This collection of pink computer icons is like haute couture for your desktop! And it’s designed to help you stay on top of your projects too!

Designed to help you create an uncluttered and stylish desktop with color coded folders, Luminous Pink Folder Icons come in six shades of pink. From dreamy and pale to hot and daring. Baby Pink, Carnation, Rose, Cerise, Hollywood Cerise and Magenta.

< — Save Luminous Pink Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Rich and royal. Magic, mysterious, extravagant and spiritual purple. The colour of power, wisdom and creativity! The colour that sparks imaginations and speaks of originality.

The series of Luminous folder icons is designed to help you keep your desktop both tidy and inviting by colour coding your projects.

Purple is the colour of royalty. Said to have been Egyptian Queen Cleopatra’s favourite color, purple evokes power, wealth, extravagance, bravery, royalty and magic.

Purple has a rich colour spectrum, and is associated with creativity, wisdom and spirituality, and encourages the imagination. Purple is about being unique, individual and independent. It seeks creative pursuits and originality.

Here are twelve shades of purple folder icons: Wild Violet, Plum, Lavender, Amethyst, Mauve, Lilac, Mulberry, Royal Purple, Thistle, Orchid, Eggplant and Purple Ink!

< — Save Luminous Purple Folder Icons to your computer.

The Complete Series of Luminous Icons:

Luminous Blue Folder Icons
Luminous Ready Steady Go (red, yellow & green)
Luminous Greyscale Icons
Luminous Purple Folder Icons
Luminous Orange Folder Icons
Luminous Pink Folder Icons

Customizing your folders and desktop icons helps you to quickly and easily locate your favourite applications, the projects you are working on, your most important files and folders.

This example with an icon of a vintage filing cabinet is from the series of Productive Icons, the Workflow Collection would make a great choice for a folder with archived projects.

Rapidly finding and identifying the files you are looking for speeds up your work and reduces stress.

Color Code Your Folders For a Productive Desktop

Perhaps the easiest and most consistent yet flexible way to make your desktop more productive with icons is to use folder icons in different colors to color code your projects.

One way to colour code your tasks and files with folder icons is by assigning a color to a type of project, for instance by using blue folder icons for work projects and violet blue folders for personal projects.

Another method to colour code projects is to use colors to indicate workflow or actions. For example using one color for urgent actions, one for projects on hold, one for stuff that needs to be sorted out, one for downloads, one for inspiration or brainstorming, one for research and yet another for completed and filed projects.

Ready Steady Go Folder Icons are designed to help you colour code your projects. Think of them as a stimulus package for your desktop, and go get them today!

With a total of twelve shades of red, yellow and green you can use Ready Steady Go to indicate how urgent a project is. Red for urgent, yellow for medium or projects on hold and green for finished projects

To bring you even more options when you color code your projects using icons there are four more sets of Luminous Folder Icons:, purple, blue, pink and orange.

Support Your Workflow With Icons

For even more of a process inspired approach, you could use the Workflow Collection, designed to support your workflow with a minimum of effort.

An Inbox icon for your “collection buckets” such as your folder for downloads, a folder for brainstorming, urls, images and lose ideas that need to be processed. The to-do icon (a clipboard) for “next actions”, the doing icon (a gear) for “active projects”, the pending icon (an hourglass) for “waiting for” and the archive icon for “completed projects”.

Workflow Desktop Icons

This method works excellently for David Allen’s Getting Things Done (or GTD) action management method but also for personal methods of staying productive and organized in a simple way.

Getting Organized On a Beautiful Desktop

Not only does customizing your icons to simplify work and leisure on your computer give you a review of your projects it also increases your productivity and helps you focus. As an extra bonus, using icons of your choice and taste as opposed to generic icons can make your life on your computer more gratifying, fun and beautiful. You are also more likely to keep your desktop uncluttered and tidy when you take the time to customise your desktop icons.

Not sure how to customize your icons?

Here’s a tutorial for using icons on a Mac and here’s a tutorial for how to change the icons in Windows.

Illustrations with icons from the Workflow Collection. Folder icons from Luminous Blue Folder Icons. Olive green folder icon, amber yellow folder icon and garnet red folder icon form Luminous Ready Steady Go Folder Icons.