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Shelf — Media Library Folders

A set of twelve Windows-style folder icons, one per shelf of a home media library. Each folder carries a single white symbol on its own saturated tab colour, so a drive full of content reads at a glance. Built for media-server fans organizing Plex, Jellyfin or a plain file tree on desktop.

Shelf — Media Library Folders

Shelf — Media Library Folders

Twelve folders, one for every kind of thing a media library holds — the moving pictures, the sound, the pages, the snapshots. They share one folder-tab silhouette and one flat white symbol weight, and differ only by a clear category mark and a distinct tab hue. Drop them on your library root and every shelf announces itself.

Format: SVG + ICO + PNG. Every icon ships as a transparent 1024x1024 PNG in Icons/PNG/ (the previews below), plus vector .svg source and a multi-size Windows .ico (16-256 px) bundled in one zip.

Using them: drop an .ico onto a folder via Properties → Customize → Change Icon, or onto a shortcut via Properties → Shortcut → Change Icon. The SVGs are the source art for web, docs, and app UI — they stay sharp at any size; the PNGs are there for anything that can't take a vector.

Container: folder-tab — a front-facing folder with a tab on its upper-left, drawn flat and straight-on. Every icon in the pack shares it at the same scale.

Download: shelf-media-library-folders-svg-ico.zip — every icon as an .svg (vector source) and a multi-size Windows .ico. The PNGs below are the previews.

Icons in this pack

  • Movies: A clapperboard reads instantly as film and feature-length movies. Movies
  • TV Shows: A boxy television set with rabbit-ear antennae signals episodic broadcast TV. TV Shows
  • Anime: A single large stylized eye with a star highlight, the shorthand of anime character art. Anime
  • Audiobooks: An open book fused with a headphone band shows books you listen to. Audiobooks
  • Podcasts: A broadcast microphone with signal arcs, the universal podcast mark. Podcasts
  • Photos: A mountain-and-sun frame, the standard image/photo glyph. Photos
  • Music: Two beamed eighth notes read immediately as the music shelf. Music
  • Documentaries: A magnifying glass over a horizon line evokes real-world, investigative nonfiction film. Documentaries
  • Kids: A simple paper pinwheel reads as playful children's content. Kids
  • Live Concerts: A guitar silhouette marks the live-music and concert recordings shelf. Live Concerts
  • Comics & eBooks: A speech balloon over a page corner signals graphic novels and digital reading. Comics & eBooks
  • Home Videos: A handheld camcorder stands for personal and family recordings. Home Videos
Prompt

Generation Prompts

  • Concept model: claude --print — claude-opus-4-8
  • Glyph model: claude --print — claude-opus-4-8 (SVG drawn directly, not an image model)
  • Format: SVG + ICO + PNG — .svg (source) + .ico (Windows multi-size) + .png (1024x1024 RGBA)
  • Rasterizer: cairosvg, each .ico entry rendered from the vector at its own size
  • Container: drawn by the generator, not the model — identical across the pack by construction

Pack Prompt

You are a senior icon designer producing a commercial icon pack for Windows desktop and web use — the kind sold on Iconfinder or posted on DeviantArt, not a stock-illustration set.

Design a cohesive pack of 12 icons on the theme: Media Library Folders — Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Photos — folder tabs.

This step is the concept only. You are not drawing anything yet — a second pass draws each symbol as SVG, and the container shape, the tile gradient, and the final document are generated by code. Your job is to decide what the pack is, who its twelve members are, and what colours it uses.

What a pack is

A pack is one category of similar, nameable things, drawn in one shared visual system. Think "Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Vivaldi" — or "Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, Mega, OneDrive" — or "Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Canva, Affinity Designer". Twelve members of the same family, each instantly identifiable, all cut from the same cloth.

Name the real things. If the theme is browsers, name the actual browsers. If it is AI coding tools, name Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex. If it is cloud storage, name the real services. A pack of abstract inventions ("Chroma Bell", "Nebula Cloud", "Prism Home") is a failure — that is not what this is for.

But design an original mark for each. Do NOT reproduce a company's trademarked logo. Take the product's idea — what it does, its colour, its silhouette — and draw a fresh symbol for it in the pack's style. A Dropbox icon is a box or a stack of blue facets; a terminal tool is a prompt caret; a vector editor is a pen nib on a path. The set should feel recognizable at a glance without copying anyone's artwork.

If a theme genuinely has no real-world members (e.g. "Website Page Icons — Cart, Checkout, Orders"), then the 12 members are the concrete pages or functions themselves, still named plainly.

The shared visual system

Pick ONE container shape for the whole pack. The renderer draws it for you, identically on all twelve — you only choose which one fits the theme:

container Use it for
squircle-tile app icons, browsers, mobile/desktop apps, AI tools
folder-tab anything described as a folder pack — Windows folder icons
circle-badge social, profile, status, round-dock sets
rounded-square system/utility/taskbar icons, settings panels
drive-block storage, backup, drives, sync services
bare-glyph page/UI icons meant to sit inline in a web layout

Colour

The pack is two-tone by design, and that is what makes it read as a set:

  • Each icon gets its own tile_color — the container behind it. This is where a member's identity lives: Firefox orange, Dropbox blue, Spotify green. Pick a saturated, distinguishable hex per icon; no two should be near-identical, and all twelve should look like one palette family rather than a random assortment.
  • The whole pack shares ONE glyph_color — the symbol drawn on top of every tile. Almost always #FFFFFF; use a very dark neutral (e.g. #1A1A22) only if the pack's tiles are all pale.
  • For a bare-glyph pack there is no tile, so tile_color becomes the symbol's own colour and glyph_color is ignored.

Every colour must be a plain 6-digit hex string like #3B82F6.

Describing each symbol

Each icon's glyph_brief is an instruction to whoever draws it, in flat geometric terms — what shapes, in what arrangement. "A rounded upward chevron over a horizontal baseline bar" is useful; "a beautiful modern representation of growth" is not. Keep every brief phrased the same way and at the same level of detail, so the twelve come out at one optical weight.

Two hard constraints on what you may ask for, because the drawing pass is validated against them:

  • No lettering. The renderer has no fonts. If a member is best known by a letter, describe the letterform as geometry ("two vertical bars joined by a crossbar") or pick a non-letter symbol instead.
  • One colour per symbol. The symbol is drawn in the pack's single glyph_color, with transparency as the only available second shade. Do not ask for a multi-colour symbol.

Return a JSON object

  • "title" — a catchy name for the pack.
  • "slug" — a kebab-case slug.
  • "description" — 2-3 sentences on the pack's style and what it is for.
  • "introduction" — a short intro paragraph for the pack's documentation.
  • "metadata":
    • "style" — the visual style in a few words (e.g. "Flat vector, solid fills, single-weight symbols").
    • "container" — exactly one of: squircle-tile, folder-tab, circle-badge, rounded-square, drive-block, bare-glyph.
    • "glyph_color" — the one hex colour every symbol is drawn in.
    • "palette" — the tile colour family in a phrase (e.g. "saturated brand hues, one per member").
    • "keywords" — a list of 5 keywords.
  • "icons" — a list of 12 objects, each with:
    • "name" — the thing itself, named plainly ("Firefox", "Google Drive", "Checkout").
    • "concept" — one line on what the symbol shows and why it reads as that thing.
    • "glyph_brief" — the flat geometric description of this one symbol, per the section above.
    • "tile_color" — this icon's container hex.
  • "caption" — a short notification caption (e.g. "12 flat-vector browser icons in SVG, ICO and PNG.").

Return the JSON object and nothing else.

Drawing Contract (the glyph call)

You are drawing the SYMBOLS for a cohesive icon pack as SVG.

Pack: Shelf — Media Library Folders
Theme: Media Library Folders — Movies, TV Shows, Anime, Audiobooks, Podcasts, Photos — folder tabs
Style: Flat vector, solid fills, single-weight white symbols
Container: every icon is placed by our renderer inside a front-facing folder with a tab on its upper-left, drawn flat and straight-on. YOU DO NOT DRAW THE CONTAINER, the tile, the background, or any border — those already exist. Draw only the symbol that sits inside.

## Rules — these are enforced by a validator, not by review

1. Draw each symbol in a plain square coordinate box from 0,0 to 100,100. Use the whole box; our renderer scales and centers it into the container for you.
2. Output BARE SVG shape elements only: `<path>`, `<circle>`, `<rect>`, `<ellipse>`, `<polygon>`, `<polyline>`, `<line>`, `<g>`. No `<svg>` wrapper, no XML declaration, no comments, no markdown fences.
3. **No `<text>` or `<tspan>`, ever.** The rasterizer has no fonts — a text element renders as nothing. If an icon needs a letterform, draw the letter as filled `<path>`/`<rect>` geometry.
4. No `<image>`, `<script>`, `<style>`, `<foreignObject>`, and no `href`/`src` pointing anywhere external. Nothing may be fetched at render time.
5. Colour: the symbol's default fill is already set to `#FFFFFF` by the renderer, so plain shapes need no fill attribute. You MAY set `fill="#FFFFFF"` explicitly, or use `fill-opacity` between 0.35 and 0.75 for a secondary shade. Do not introduce any other colour — one symbol colour plus its own transparency is what makes the pack read as a set.
6. Prefer solid filled shapes over strokes. If you do stroke, use `stroke="#FFFFFF"` with `stroke-width` between 6 and 9, plus `stroke-linecap="round"` and `stroke-linejoin="round"` — and use the SAME stroke width on every icon in the pack.
7. One optical weight across all twelve. Same visual density, same corner treatment, same level of detail. This is the single most important property of the set.

## Output format

For each icon, one delimiter line then its markup, nothing else:

=== ICON: <slug> ===
<path d="..."/>

Emit all 12 icons, in the order listed, using exactly the slugs given.

## The icons

- `movies` — **Movies**: A horizontal rounded rectangle as the slate body, topped by a hinged bar of four diagonal parallelogram stripes angled up-right.
- `tv-shows` — **TV Shows**: A rounded rectangle screen with two thin straight lines rising in a V from its top-center for antennae and two small feet below.
- `anime` — **Anime**: A tall rounded almond eye outline with a filled circular pupil and a small four-point star cut from its upper-left as a highlight.
- `audiobooks` — **Audiobooks**: An open book shown as two facing curved pages meeting at a center spine, crowned by a thin semicircular arc connecting two small ovals at the page corners.
- `podcasts` — **Podcasts**: A vertical capsule microphone head on a short stem and base bar, flanked by two concentric curved arcs on each side radiating outward.
- `photos` — **Photos**: A rounded square frame containing a small circle in the upper-left and two overlapping triangular peaks rising from the lower edge.
- `music` — **Music**: Two vertical stems joined at the top by a thick angled beam, each stem ending in a filled oval note head at its base.
- `documentaries` — **Documentaries**: A ring circle with a short diagonal handle extending from its lower-right, a single straight horizontal line crossing the ring's interior.
- `kids` — **Kids**: A central small circle with four curved triangular blades spiraling outward in rotational symmetry, each blade a quarter pinwheel vane.
- `live-concerts` — **Live Concerts**: A figure-eight guitar body with a central round sound hole and a long straight neck extending diagonally to the upper-right ending in a small rectangular headstock.
- `comics-ebooks` — **Comics & eBooks**: A rounded rectangle speech bubble with a small triangular tail at its lower-left and three short horizontal lines stacked inside as text.
- `home-videos` — **Home Videos**: A horizontal rounded rectangle body with a filled circle lens on its left face and a small trapezoid viewfinder bump centered on its top edge.

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