#LITEICON MOUNTAIN LION MAC OS#

Go to The Icon Factory and download the icon set for Mac, (the middle button).ġ. I am a big fan of a graphic designer named David Lanham, and I am going to change the stock icon for the Calculator to one which he designed.

#LITEICON MOUNTAIN LION MAC OS#

For the purposes of this demonstration, we are going to change Mac OS X's calculator icon. Whatever your reasons for wanting to change things up, I'm going to show you a couple methods for changing an icon. Or maybe having owned an iPhone or iPad has gotten you accustomed to the uniform theme of the rounded square icon, and you wish you could duplicate that experience on your Mac. You may want to change these because you don't like the way the icon looks. You can change any of these, as well as the icons of many applications you've downloaded. When you first started up your brand new Mac, there were a bunch of programs that Apple gave you with the operating system. Visual interfaces that we've come to know and love over the past couple of decades use icons as a quicker method of opening something on your computer, rather than forcing you to type out a command.

Just about anything on your computer, be it an individual file, an internal drive, an application, etc., has an icon associated with it. Nothing too exciting, right? Well let's talk about an area where you have much more power. Set this to any of the presets or create your own. Next in General settings, you get a few more options to choose from for the color of highlighted text.

The top example here shows the Blue setting, and the bottom shows the Graphite. Changing the 'Appearance' color affects things like buttons in system messages.

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