Creating icons for Mac
- Create an icon with 1024 × 1024 pixels and save as PNG
- Create iconset with
sips
from PNGmkdir icon.iconset sips -z 16 16 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_16x16.png sips -z 32 32 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_16x16@2x.png sips -z 32 32 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_32x32.png sips -z 64 64 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_32x32@2x.png sips -z 128 128 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_128x128.png sips -z 256 256 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_128x128@2x.png sips -z 256 256 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_256x256.png sips -z 512 512 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_256x256@2x.png sips -z 512 512 icon.png --out icon.iconset/icon_512x512.png cp icon.png icon.iconset/icon_512x512@2x.png
- Create icns with
iconutil
from iconseticonutil -c icns icon.iconset
sips
– scriptable image processing system.
iconutil
– Utility to convert between '.iconset' and '.icns' files.