You end up settling for something less than perfect. While you may find an icon with the symbol or object you need, it may not be the right style or size. But finding the perfect icon set for your project can be difficult. They’re a hugely important part of creating a user-friendly UI. Best thing to do is ignore them globally.Every designer needs access to high-quality icons. Nice as these icons are, they're really annoying to work with when you use Git. This ensures it uses if retina) icons.Īlso, I recommend setting the icons with a tool such as fileicon, which ensures that all responsive sizes are actually present (this is not the case when dragging the icon in the Finder's Info window). You can do this in the General preferences pane. Note that, if you use mySIMBL, the icons will look best if you set the Finder's sidebar icon size to 'small'. The image is a screenshot from how I've currently organized my Finder sidebar.

I use this in conjunction with the mySIMBL plugin for turning the Finder sidebar colors back on (colorfulSidebar9), which lets you put projects you commonly work on in a place where you can easily see them, while making it easy to identify the project type. Each size is set up as a slice in the PSD file, so to save a new iconset all you need to use is Save for Web. Feel free to submit new icons you make.Įach icon includes seven responsive sizes (16×16, 128×128, and and work on both retina and non-retina displays. This icon set includes a number of Folder icon color modifications, and there's PSDs that you can easily use to create new icons. This repository contains a number of folder icons I made for Mac OS X/macOS, for organizing project folders by color.

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