Iconographer is our own icon-creation tool, and we've decided to share it with you, because designing application icons or customizing icons can be a tedious and time-consuming task--especially application icons, as you need to also create the related "Document" icons, "Disk Image" icon, and possibly even a folder icon--not forgetting that different operating systems have different guidelines for how app icons should look. We've included templates and styles to simply the process of creating icons for OS X/macOS, Windows, and Web icons (such as favicons and Apple Touch icons).
Iconographer supports you through every step of the icon-creation process:
- Previewer
- The macOS Dock (it actually replaces the Iconographer icon)
- The macOS About Box
- A Mac App Store sample
- QuickLook Preview
- iPhone 6 home screen and App Store
- iPad 2 home screen
- Contact sheet showing the icon at various sizes
- Editor
- Layers, with blending modes, opacity and clipping
- Layer dimensions are actually displayed in the layer while you're moving it around (awesome)
- Platform specific shapes, such as the macOS circle, rounded rect, Windows tile and iOS rounded square
- Multiple 1-Click Styles, for not only each icon, but also each platform
- A choice of 5 different backgrounds
- Shared graphic layers, set the image once and it's used across all the icons
- Shared colors and gradients; helping to keep your icon's identity across platforms
- Shared labels; perfect for any text you need on the icon
- Increase readability; keeps legibility of text at smaller sizes
- Snapping guidelines, help to keep the elements in line
- Overview; provides a small preview helping to simulate what the icon will look like at smaller sizes
- Generator
- Formats include; ICNS, Iconset, Windows ICO, TIFF, and PNG
- Highly compressed icons; up-to 75% smaller than competing applications
- Choice over which sizes are included in the exported icons
- ICNS files can support Mac OS X 10.0 through to macOS 10.12 Sierra
- Windows ICO files can support Windows 95 up to Windows 10
- Export all platforms in one click by selecting "Build all selected icons"
- Bitmap image export; control over file format, image size, and resolution