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Chi-Nata

A MacOS 9-styled icon set

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Chi-Nata ("Chicago Sonata") is an icon set that tries to recreate the look of MacOS 9's desktop icons. The intention behind this is to enable users of modern systems to emulate the aesthetic of the Classic MacOS more completely by providing icons for newer programs that fit with this style.

While these may use some of the original MacOS ico's as a base (such as the file icon), all icons in this repo must be original. Please don't just recolor the base MacOS icons and push them here. With that being said, do feel free to look at the original icons for inspiration.

Standards

Design

To keep the look of the icons consistent, please make sure your additions meet these standards:

  • .ico file type
  • Create the icons in 32x32 pixel image size, but export them in 256x256
  • Paletted to the Standard VGA Palette

Structure and Naming

This icon pack principally tries to conform to the freedesktop.org Icon Pack Specification and Icon Naming Specification. This means that i.e. Folder, Device, and Action icons should conform to the latter, while the directory structure should conform to the former.

For application icons, to ensure that any icon can be easily searched for, use this naming scheme:

[Author] . [Program Name] - [Variant]

for example, for Steam, use

Valve.Steam.ico

if a base icon for a program already exists and you want to add a variant, suffix a variant name to its name with a dash. So for our example, you might use

Valve.Steam-Dark.ico

If you're in doubt about the author of a program, not sure which to use, or just want to quickly look it up, I would recommend using the IDs off the winget-pkgs repo, after which this scheme is modeled.

Instructions

MacOS

The method listed below is the vanilla method provided by the OS. If you want to apply these custom icons to system apps, I would recommend IconChamp or a similar application of your choice. For IconChamp users, an .ict file is provided in the root folder which will install the theme automatically when opened.

  1. Open you application folder (Macintosh HD -> Applications)
  2. Select the application whose icon you want to change and open its info panel (⌘I)
  3. Open the .ico file you want to apply to the app in Preview
  4. Select the desired icon size and copy it (⌘C)
  5. In the app's info window, select the application icon in the upper left corner and paste the icon (⌘V)

Linux

These instructions should work in any freedekstop.org-compliant desktop environment. This includes GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Mate, and LXDE. Since the base directory of the repo conforms to the base directory of an icon pack, you should be able to just clone it into your icon theme folder:

cd /usr/share/icons
git clone https://github.com/DawnVespero/Chi-Nata.git

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