Solus Artwork

Solus Artwork provides the default set of backgrounds and icons for Solus.

Background Submission

Requirements

Below is a list of requirements that submissions must satisfy before they are reviewed by the Solus staff. Passing the below requirements is not a guarantee that the images will be included.

• Must be licensed under Public Domain, CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA. Specify which license the artwork is under.
• Image must be 3840x2160 or higher.
• If you are not the original author, you must provide the source: URL to the webpage hosting the image, direct download (if possible) to the image, name of author.
• Only Solus branding assets (name, trademark, or logo) are allowed to be used in the artwork.
• Images should not be too busy and filled with too many shapes and colors. A similar tone throughout is a good rule of thumb.
• No illustrations some may consider inappropriate, offensive, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libellous.
• No sexually explicit or provocative images.
• No images of weapons or violence.
• No alcohol, tobacco, or drug use imagery.
• No designs which promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against groups or individuals; or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
• No religious, political, or nationalist imagery.
• No AI-generated artwork.

Submitting Backgrounds

Suggestions should be provided through one of the following mechanisms:

1. Submitting a pull request following (and filling in) the Pull Request template.
2. Creating a post using the "Background Suggestions" tag in the forum.

Attributions

Solus Artwork contains many backgrounds graciously provided by the community for the purposes of inclusion into Solus. Please see Attribution for licensing details of each background.

Branding and Logos

• Copyright © 2015-2025 Solus Project.
• The contents of icons/ and the Solus logo itself is Copyright © 2016-2019 Solus Project. All Rights Reserved.