- There is something to be said in regards to altering the look and feel of the items you utilize. All things considered, customizations, for example, that make your device “your own”, and give your devices an individual touch. While it is anything but difficult to alter parts of your Mac, for example, the desktop, and even a portion of the signals that macOS offers, did you know you can even modify the application symbols that are utilized by your applications? That as well, without utilizing any outsider programming. All you need is a PNG picture of the symbol you need to utilize. Along these lines, here is the way you can utilize custom symbols in macOS:
Change App Icons in macOS
- Designing an icon for an application isn’t as simple as it may appear. A great deal of thought goes into outlining the ideal icon, as that is the thing that a great many people will perceive the application by. Come to consider it, how frequently do you really read the name of the application on your Mac, before propelling it? Hell, the dock doesn’t have names for the applications you continue there. For reasons unknown, icons are really essential. In the event that you need to modify icons on your Mac, you can simply follow the steps given below:
1. Getting the Icon You Want
- Deciding which icon to use in place of the default icon. If you’re good at designing, you can probably design an icon yourself. There are a lot of websites that offer icons that you can download, with a variety of licenses. I’ll be using Iconfinder. For illustration, I’ll change the app icon for Google Chrome.
- First, launch a web browser, and go to Iconfinder. Here, search for the icon you want. I’ll search for “Google”.
Note: Don’t forget to filter the results by their license, just to make sure that you don’t end up infringing a copyright.
- Once you find an icon you like, simply click on it, and download it in PNG format. I’ll download the Google logo, in the 512×512 size.
2.Replacing the Default Icon
- Once you have downloaded the icon you want to use, simply follow the steps below to change the icon on the app you want.
- First, open the new icon you just downloaded. Press command + A, to select it, and then press command + C to copy it.
- Then, in Finder, go to the Applications folder, and select the app you want to replace the icon for. Right click, and click on “Get Info“. You can also press command + I to open the inspector.
- Click on the app’s icon in the Inspector. You’ll be able to see that it is selected.
- Simply press command + V to paste your copied icon in place of the icon the app is using. You may be asked to enter an admin login credentials, if you’re using a standard account. Once you’re done, the app’s icon will have changed to the new icon that you pasted.
Note: While this method changes the app’s icon, if you had already added the app to your Dock, you will have to add the app to the Dock again, in order to see the new icon there. However, don’t worry, the app’s icon has been changed system-wide, and you can check this by going to Spotlight, and typing the app’s name. It will show you the new icon. You can also check this in Launchpad.
Use Custom Icons on your Mac
- Now that you know how you can use custom icons on Mac, you can go ahead and change the icons of any app that you always secretly wished had a different icon.