Developer Icons

Icons and graphics for Mac OS X developers

This page contains icons and graphics for Mac OS X developers to use in their products.

You're welcome to download and use these items, subject to the License Agreement mentioned below. If you've created some icons or images which you'd like to make available to other developers, please contact us!

You can also download and use our Cocoa source code in your own Mac OS X applications.

License Agreement

These items (excluding those in the Third-Party Icons section, and excluding those for which other licensing terms are mentioned) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 1.0, except for paragraph 5.a. thereof which is hereby excluded from the license for these items.

To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA.

Developer Icons

These icons and graphics are available in various formats, as specified individually below. Where Photoshop files are included, they are Photoshop 7.0 (or later) layered PSD files, which may include text layers, Layer Styles, and other Photoshop-specific elements. Where Illustrator files are included, the files are usually Illustrator 10.0 (or later) AI files, with embedded fonts.

If you need other formats, please contact us and we'll be happy to oblige.

Application Icon Template

This is a layered Photoshop file containing a template for a standard Mac OS X application icon, in the TextEdit/Project Builder style. Each element (main page, secondary page, and tool) is on a separate layer, with appropriate Layer Styles for drop-shadows. Perspectives and angles are correct for this style of icon. This file includes the Fountain Pen graphic by Michael McCracken; see below. Here's a preview. (Using MacGIMP instead of Photoshop? Ruffin Bailey has kindly converted this template to XCF format. Download it here.) Note: this icon is released into the public domain.

	Web Browser Toolbar Icons
	This is a layered Photoshop file containing various icons suitable for use in a web browser, one per layer, including intact Layer Styles. Icons are sized larger than normal NSToolbar size for flexibility. Here's a preview.

	Miscellaneous Icons
	A grab-bag of icons in all kinds of formats, including Photoshop, PNG, TIFF, ICNS and others. Here's a preview.

Third-Party Icons

The following icons and graphics have been made available by other Mac OS X developers. They are not Scotland Software products, and are not governed by the License Agreement mentioned previously. Please visit the info page for each item (links are provided below), to find out more about licensing. In almost all cases, licenses are substantially similar to our own License Agreement above.

	Uli's Toolbar Icons
	18 icons suitable for use in NSToolbars in your applications. Particularly useful for IDEs or code editors of any kind. Created by M. Uli Kusterer. Here's a preview.

Provided by Shaun Wexler. This is a TIFF image, created for use as a G5 compatibility icon. Here's a preview.

Provided by Michael McCracken. This is a TIFF of the Fountain Pen image used in the icon for Blapp. Here's a preview.

	Refresh Icon
	Provided by Buzz Andersen. This is the "Refresh" toolbar-icon used in PodWorks. Both a Photoshop 7 file and the original Illustrator file are provided.

	VoodooPad Toolbar Icons
	Provided by Gus Mueller. (Individual download links are available on that page.) Gus has made four icons available: the "HomePad", "Link" and "Info" toolbar-icons from VoodooPad (as PNGs), and the application icon from VoodooNetKey (as a PSD).

Resources

Below is a collection of links to useful icon-related resources for developers, including sites where icons can be downloaded and/or purchased, icon design contractors, and more.

Icon-related Cocoa Source Code

Our source code page contains Cocoa sample code showing how to retrieve the file icon for any filetype (such as "html", "rtf" and so on), or the application icon of the user's default handler application for any internet protocol (such as "http:" for the default web-browser, "mailto:" for the default email client, and so on).

Obj-C Source Toolbar Icons

A collection of useful toolbar icons for your applications. See elsewhere on the site for source code and other developer-oriented goodies.

Apple User Experience Aqua Icon Design resources

Apple's Aqua Icon Design page includes tips, tricks and further links, and also offers an Aqua Icon Kit for download, which includes Photoshop 7 templates and actions to help you create document and plugin icons for your applications.

The IconFactory

No list of Mac icon resources would be complete without mentioning the venerable IconFactory. They offer contract design services, and have now also created StockIcons.com, where you can purchase and download pre-made sets of toolbar icons for Mac OS X, Windows XP, and more.

Icon Designers for hire

Hire any of these talented icon designers to give your app's UI a professional finish.

Rick Roe's Icons.cx

Amongst many other goodies, Icons.cx has plenty of classic Mac OS (32x32 pixels) icons you're allowed to distribute, which are perfect for your NSToolbars.