- For several years, I’ve used a piece of software called Candybar to customise the icons on my Mac. About six months ago, the developers of Candybar, Panic, made the app free. As OS X changes, it’s plausible that one day, you might be unable to change your icons.
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A slick and very easy to use application that was developed in order to help you customize and organize your icons/your Mac's interface
What's new in CandyBar 3.3.4:
My sincere thanks to the many great icon designers who provide their work free of charge to the Mac user community. Installing the Clear Crystal Icons. This icon set is available as an iContainer for the application CandyBar, which provides a convenient way of quickly installing (or uninstalling) icons for the various system types. In the ongoing post, we have showcased 20 Free CandyBar Icons Sets. We have searched elegant and free CandyBar icon set for you on the web. These all icons sets are pretty attractive; it must catch your attention. If you are looking for best icon pack for Candy Bar then your search is over as in this post we have listed 20 Creative CandyBar. CandyBar is an OS X application brought to you by Panic, the talented creators of Transmit, and The Iconfactory, the web's best source for cool, free icons. Anyone who loves icons or customizing.
- Added support for Mac OS X 10.8 system icons
- Signed with Developer ID
CandyBar is now a free and unsupported application and you can register it using the following serial number:
PPQA-YAMA-E3KP-VHXG-B6AL-L
CandyBar comes in handy if you need to easily import and manage different icons collections.
The application ensures that you have quick access to all icons you have ever used, but you can also quickly go back to the default designs, if needed.
CandyBar includes powerful search capabilities and, once you found an icon that you want to use, you can assign it to an application, folder, device or volume.
Furthermore, CandyBar allows you to preview the icon design in the main window and you can easily assign it via a simple drag and drop action.
CandyBar can be used to customize your Dock’s appearance: you can change the Dock background image, the bottom edge, the separator or the active indicator.
To apply the changes you will need the administrator password. The same rule applies if you want to restore the Dock to its default design.
You can switch between the resources that can be customized through the Change Tab. These resources are organized in 4 panels: one for system icons, one for applications, one for the Dock and one for different volumes. This way you can easily find the icons you want to replace or the areas you want to customize.
Moreover, the Quick Drop tool can be used to replace specific icons: select the new icon you want to use and drop the file or folder you want to customize on top of the Quick Drop area.
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For several years, I’ve used a piece of software called Candybar to customise the icons on my Mac. About six months ago, the developers of Candybar, Panic, made the app free. As OS X changes, it’s plausible that one day, you might be unable to change your icons. Although I’ve had a license for several years, and so I’m not affected monetarily, I still appreciate the gesture.
Earlier tonight, I was recommending Candybar and a list of my favourite icon sets in a comment on Dreamwidth. Since this might be of interest to other people, I’m posting it here for everyone to read.
Instructions for downloading Candybar are in the Panic announcement. Links to the various icon sets are embedded below.
Motivation
You might ask why you’d want to customise your icons. Good question. I’m by no means a UI expert, but here’s a brief explanation of why I like to do it:
One of the big changes in OS X Leopard was to remove all semblance of colour from folder icons. A similar trend has continued throughout OS X: the sidebar icons in iTunes, iPhoto and Mail have become similarly monochrome. This has generally been seen as a bad move, because colour is an easy way to pick out different icons, and removing it makes it harder to pick out something at a glance.
If you customise your icons, you can make them visually distinctive, and easy to find at a glance. You can also use colour to denote significance (for example, I pick out folders for projects with an imminent deadline in a bright red). It also looks nice.
Recommendations
So here’s the list (originally written for somebody who is both fannishly active and a big Avengers fan). I use almost all of these somewhere on my Mac, and I really like all of them.
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- Avengers folders! I think you might like these. ;) http://iconfactory.com/freeware/preview/avre (Dave Brasgalla) Also in the Avengers theme, here’s a Tesseract icon: http://mantia.me/icons/tesseract/ (Louie Mantia) The Iconfactory have a number of different icon sets for different fandoms: Doctor Who, Star Trek, various comic characters and Studio Ghibli are all lurking in my Candybar library.
- Coloured folders. Useful for marking folders that you need to be able to pick out at a glance. http://ekliptikz.deviantart.com/art/Snow-Leopard-Folder-Colors-162730433 (ekliptikz)
- Steampunk storage. Hard drive icons, but made in a steampunk style. Coolest icons ever. http://iconfactory.com/freeware/preview/stmpnk (David Lanham)
- Safari. Some compass-themed icons that bring some variety to Safari. I really like these. http://www.pixelresort.com/blog/the-safari-icon-set/ (Michael Flarup)
- Stores. Icons for iTunes that aren’t blue circles (I’m currently using the orange iTunes icon) and a Mac App Store icon to match. http://mantia.me/icons/stores/ (Louie Mantia)
- Creative Sense. A set of stunning replacement icons for Adobe Creative Suite. http://beta.dthought.net/icon-sets/creative-sense/release-2/ (Mike Hopkins)
- First Class Mail icons. Literally. A series of four Mail.app icon replacements, styled to look like British stamps. Have the Queen’s head in your dock. http://dribbble.com/shots/607320-2nd-Class (Louie Mantia, scroll down for the link)
- Ive Drives. Two collections of icons, which provide replacement hard drive icons styled to look like Apple hardware. The first are reminiscent of the Mac mini: http://mantia.me/icons/ive-drives/ while the second looks like the Apple TV: http://mantia.me/icons/ive-drives-2/ (Louie Mantia)
- Katakana and rune folders. Although I understand neither Japanese of the Elder FuBark alphabet, I like the look of these icons, and it would be remiss to omit them. The same designer also has icons for individual characters elsewhere on her dA page. Runes: http://asgardstudios.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-Folders-Runes-74966895 and Japanese Katakana symbols: http://asgardstudios.deviantart.com/art/Leopard-Folders-Katakana-74964843 (asgardstudios)
I’ve mentioned Louie Mantia several times in the links above. He’s one of my favourite designers, and as well as icons, he’s designed a lot of wallpapers (http://mantia.me/wallpaper/). They’re definitely worth checking out. Themes include Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Brave, a SHIELD wallpaper, and lots of other things that I’m not fannishly aware enough to recognise.
Of course, there are lots of other places to find good icon sets. I’ve mentioned The Iconfactory above; I’ve also picked up gems from Dribbble and the icons section of deviantART before. Icon designers often post freebies on their personal sites too. And there’s nothing to stop you breaking out Photoshop and trying your hand at making one yourself.
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Enjoy!
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