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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon joelekstrom

Suggestion: New App Icon?

Open timolins opened this issue 1 year ago • 9 comments

Hi everyone! Thanks for making fastmate, I really like it.

The default icon didn't appeal to me, so I created my own. I thought I'll share if anyone else wants to use it – maybe even a PR if you want.

Fastmate-preview
Full icon as PNG fastmale-icon

timolins avatar Aug 27 '22 21:08 timolins

Looks great 😊 thanks for sharing! Might be time to open a discussion thread where we can keep an index of alternative icons since there have been a few.

I won’t change the default one (at least for now), partly because I like it and partly because this one looks a bit too close to the Fastmail icon for me to want to use it for legal reasons. But it’s great to have a set of alternative ones that people can choose from!

joelekstrom avatar Aug 28 '22 13:08 joelekstrom

Great, a discussion thread sounds good.

Did some more variations, as I felt like I have too many white + blue circle apps in my dock.

Screenshot 2022-09-02 at 12 17 10

Currently sporting the dark version, which I really like: Fastmate-preview

timolins avatar Sep 02 '22 10:09 timolins

I love this alternative. Feels more inline with other macOS icons.

@joelekstrom I understand your decision to not change the icon, but maybe it would be cool to embed more than one icon in to the app and allow users to change them in the settings? That way when the app updates it would keep the user selected icon instead of reverting to the default one and waiting for me to "override" the icon again. WDYT? I think I can manage a PR with that if it's OK with you.

YANOUSHek avatar Sep 04 '22 21:09 YANOUSHek

@timolins could you share the other color variants in full resolution?

YANOUSHek avatar Sep 05 '22 08:09 YANOUSHek

Sure! I picked the five versions I liked best.

Show PNGs fastmate-1 fastmate-2 fastmate-3 fastmate-4 fastmate-5

timolins avatar Sep 05 '22 12:09 timolins

I am the designer of the current icon and I agree that the change can be made :3

melvinsalas avatar Nov 08 '22 17:11 melvinsalas

I love the first icon.

If anyone wants to use it you can easily change an app icon by first copying the PNG to your clipboard, then right clicking on Fastmate.app, and then "Get Info". In the new window click on the tiny icon in the top left (it should get outlined in blue) and do CMD+V to replace the icon. The only downside to this is you'll need to do it after every app update.

mikescott avatar Dec 04 '22 21:12 mikescott

@timolins Beautiful icons! Thanks for those. Would you share your figma file for those by chance? No big deal if not.

@mikescott Use Pictogram to have your icons persist after updates.

frankievalentine avatar Apr 02 '23 06:04 frankievalentine

@frankievalentine For sure, here is the Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/bCeqIyW5py70jle8Q1H1Dy/Fastmate-Icons

timolins avatar Sep 16 '23 09:09 timolins