notshridhar/custom-icon-gen

customized icon pack generator for macOS

custom-icon-gen

A dynamic icon pack generator from plain vectors. Customizable styles and colors for icons.

Icons built with default style

Why

I like uniform customizable size and style for all my icons.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/notshridhar/custom-icon-gen
cd custom-icon-gen

# optional: create new environment
python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt
python generate.py [--replace]

To generate png images without replacing original icons, run generate.py without any arguments. To replace the icons manually, see replacing icons.

To replace the original icons, run generate.py with --replace argument. However note that this requires elevated permissions and might also need temporarily disabling SIP.

There are also some exceptions where the new icon is not reflected and only default icon is visible Details.

Contributing

Any kind of contribution is welcome. Feel free to create Issues or PRs for adding or improving icons, or for adding custom styles.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for extensive details.

custom-icon-gen's Issues

Seeing Generic Icons [MacOS]

Issue

Some icons do not change from default even when the .icns files are replaced. Weirdly enough, all of the apps having icon named AppIcon.icns show this odd behavior.

Solution

Since these cannot be changed automatically using the command line, the manual method (Get Info -> Copy/Paste) will have to be used to replace these

Icons facing issue

System

• App Store
• Calculator
• FaceTime
• iTunes
• Mail
• Messages
• Notes
• Photos
• Voice Memos
• Console
• Disk Utility
• Keychain
• Screenshot
• System Information

External

• Paintbrush
• Soundflower
• Mounty