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Update macOS app icon to have a Big Sur style#1572

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Update macOS app icon to have a Big Sur style#1572
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@bplaat bplaat commented Jun 27, 2025

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Hey, I love Pinta on macOS. Only Pinta doesn't have a Big Sur like icon, so it doesn't match super well in the Dock with the other apps. This pr replaces the .icns with a Big Sur like icon. Looking forward to your feedback :^)

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Thanks for the contribution! It looks pretty good to me

At smaller sizes in the dock, I wonder how it would look with e.g. some darker outlines around the shapes? The white / light grey colors are a bit harder to see against the background for me

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bplaat commented Jun 30, 2025

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At smaller sizes in the dock, I wonder how it would look with e.g. some darker outlines around the shapes? The white / light grey colors are a bit harder to see against the background for me

Thanks for the response, I just don't know if the whole thing would look better with a dark outline or shadow. Maybe we can change the background color, but then I'm not a graphic designer anyway. So my design skills here are pretty limited. Maybe someone else in the community has a nice design?

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I'm also not much of a designer :) but another thought would be trying a grey background, sort of like the header on the pinta-project.com web page?

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bplaat commented Jul 3, 2025

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I'm also not much of a designer :) but another thought would be trying a grey background, sort of like the header on the pinta-project.com web page?

That results in this icon, for my taste it is a bit to dark:

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Thanks! Yeah, I agree the dark background doesn't look as nice

I'm good to merge in the white icon - if anyone in the community wants to make some additional tweaks for extra contrast that's definitely welcome, but already it's a big improvement over the existing icon!
Thanks for your contributions :)

@cameronwhite cameronwhite merged commit 4ab172a into PintaProject:master Jul 4, 2025
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@bplaat bplaat deleted the macos-big-sur-icon branch July 4, 2025 08:06
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