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1. ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC HOW TO
2. ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC SOFTWARE
3. ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC PASSWORD
4. ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC DOWNLOAD

Browsers, communication, and email apps are circular Adobe CS and project mgmt software is square, various Mac apps for writing, organising photos, etc. As you can see, I’ve grouped my icons by function, and it just so happens that generally they are sorted by shape. Trust me, it’s good to have some variation. If they are all the same shape, for example, we will have to go down the list and actually read the letters, which takes too long. But because we humans recognise colour, shape, form, and letters, we need as many points of distinction to quickly sort and choose icons. I tried it a few years ago when everyone was making their applications in the Adobe CS2 style. Something to note in the realm of icon design is that having a ubiquitous Dock with all the same style of icon actually isn’t a great idea. Definitely worth a look if you don’t fancy my own version.

ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC HOW TO

Wired Magazine has some alternatives for the iTunes icon, and directions on how to change it. Just remember to leave a space cushion so the icons have some room to breathe in the Dock.

ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC DOWNLOAD

If you want to create more of your own, download the PSD and go nuts. The above images are PNG files, so go ahead and drag ’em to your system and use ’em. I kept the blue ‘Q’ icon, because my brain recognises, but in my Dock, it just looks so clumsy and out of place. And then I made the same thing for Quicktime. One that feels vaguely mechanical, like something that might play music. So I made one that looks more like the application interface itself. The iTunes icon came under some scrutiny recently, and without reviving that ‘controversy’, I wasn’t a fan. Simply type it in and confirm the change.Inspired by my pal Jessica Hische and her recent icon insurrection, I took matters into my own hands and vanquished my two least-favourite Mac icons, iTunes and Quicktime.

ALTERNATIVE ICONS FOR MAC PASSWORD

You will be asked to enter your password at this point.

If it’s not there, just press ‘command + shift + G’, type in ‘/Applications/’ and press the return key to go into the Applications folder. In Finder, click on ‘Applications’ in the sidebar.I am using the iOS app icon for Photoshop here. To use this method you will need to have the new icon that you want to set saved on your Mac somewhere. If you don’t want to use the Terminal for some reason, or if you just need to change the icon for a single app and iconsur feels overkill, you can also change icons with Finder. In such a case, simply run the iconsur command again. Note: The icons might change back after app updates. You can repeat the sudo iconsur set Terminal command for as many apps as you like.

Microsoft Edge Icon before (left) vs after (right) As you can see, the new icon is more in-line with Big Sur icon styles. Take a look at the before and after app icons for Microsoft Edge in the Launchpad.Once everything is done, you will see something like ‘Successfully set icon for /Applications/Microsoft Edge.app’. You will see a few lines of output on your Terminal telling you what iconsur is doing.You will need to use it for apps with spaces in the same, such as Microsoft\ Word, Microsoft\ Excel, etc. That “\” you see after “Microsoft” is an escape character. For example, I want to change the icon for Microsoft Edge, so I’ll use the following command.Replace ‘app name’ with the name of the app you want to change the icon for. Once installed, just use the following command to change the app icon to a Big Sur style icon.You will see a progress bar show up, and iconsur will start being downloaded and installed on your system.