kaffeeundsalz Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Hi everyone, I know there are already a couple of macOS App Icon templates around here in the forums, but none of these were suitable for my needs. So I created my own from scratch in Affinity Designer and decided to share it here with you. It's complete with editable shapes, custom grid and guides. As you may know, there are three basic app icon shapes in macOS: circular, square and tilted rectangle. This template is for the circular version and contains only the basic elements. This way, it's easy to bring in your own design. For example, I've created the layers in a way that the inner circle can be easily used as a clipping layer to make sure that when placing a file, it won't exceed the boundaries of the actual design area. I used Apple's iBooks icon from Mojave as a reference and tried to match gradients, strokes and shadows. I did however change the icon size and guide positions by just a few pixels to strictly constrain to the 8x8 pixels grid Apple suggests in its design guidelines. Apple's own icons are often slightly off-grid; I decided to correct this at least for the basic shapes and sizes found in the template. Speaking of grid, I made one with Affinity Designer's Grid and Axis Manager which is 64 pixels with 4x16 pixels subdivisions (not 8 pixels to not make it look too dense). Since Designer doesn't support circular and diagonal guides, I created these as actual curves and shapes in the document and put them in their own group (diagonals snapping is however enabled via the Intermediate angles feature). For more information about the macOS icon grid, see here. Any comments and suggestions are very welcome. macOS Circle Icon.afdesign DEWLine and Rivka 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEWLine Posted August 19, 2023 Share Posted August 19, 2023 Okay this might be useful for helping a friend out. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted August 24, 2023 Author Share Posted August 24, 2023 Possibly. It's outdated tbh since Apple uses squircle-shaped app icons system-wide starting with macOS 11 Big Sur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEWLine Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 The purpose I have in mind is more in line with Facebook, MeWe, and maybe Twitter's profile page design styles. Thank you in any case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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