A Cool Mac OS X Icon Set 5
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For people who get a little bored of the original Mac icons used in applications Elite By Design has created a new icon set which I thought you guys might enjoy. If you are familiar with the iPhone icons, with the glass bezel and rounded corners, theses are in a similar style. In the pack there are two sets, black and white and 128px x 128px and 64px x 64px.
They are really nice, and can be used for replacing the default icon set. He also includes the PSD file which can be used to make your own icons. I would recommend changing the images size in Photoshop to 512px x 512px since this is the largest size which is used by your Mac if you are on Leopard. You also get better quality when used in Quicklook for example. You can download the whole pack from Deviant Art.
To change and icon, simply Get Info for any application and then drag the png onto the little icon in the top left of Get Info. To change it back simply press delete on the icon in Get Info.
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5 Responses to “A Cool Mac OS X Icon Set”
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Thanks so much for featuring my icons! Much appreciated!
Comment By Brian on July 18th, at 2:21 pm
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They look cool. Is there any chance you could release more?
Comment By admin on July 18th, at 3:48 pm
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Those look really cool! There’s another icon set called Float, it’s a default icon set for a application called CandyBar.
Comment By Richard on July 19th, at 2:10 pm
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But they’re hideous. They don’t have many of the basic elements icons ought to have scaleability (if that’s a word). They’re not even .icns.
Comment By Joe on July 19th, at 5:43 pm
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At Joe. Thanks for you opinion. I think they do scale, they just take the normal icons a bit further. I’ve seen plenty of Apple icons that don’t take to scaling. For example, Terminal, Activity Monitor and Console. At a tiny size they all look the same. By the way you a Mac you can take any image format and you can use it as an icon. If your Mac can render it, it can use it as an icon.
Comment By admin on July 19th, at 5:46 pm
