Icon Slate For Mac

Jeremy Marchand’s Icon Slate is an OS X utility that aims to make it as simple and as easy as possible to quickly create your own icons or icon sets out of any image on your Mac.

To do so, Icon Slate comes with an intuitive and drag-and-drop based user interface, designed to help you design your icons very quickly and effortlessly.

Moreover, once you drop the image you want to convert, Icon Slate takes over for you and automatically generates the icon sizes you need, depending on the icon format you’ve selected via the “Format” menu.

After Icon Slate gets its job done and builds your icon set, you can further customize their appearance using the top right toolbox that will help you fine-tune your icons color, transparency and brightness.

While working on your icons, Icon slate also makes it simple to get a quick preview of how the end result will look by displaying the icon in your Dock, as a simple mode of getting a sense of what extra adjustments you’ll have to perform in order to obtain the icon you need.

As soon as you’re done tweaking their appearance, Icon Slate will allow you to build your icon sets or generate the icon you want, and help you export them with one mouse click.

Moreover, Icon Slate can be used to work with Retina, iContainer, PNG, iconsets, ICO amd TIFF images, thus making it extremely simple to prepare almost any type of picture to make it usable as an iOS or OS X application icon, in just a few steps.

Icon slate comes with built-in support for OS X’s very useful Versions and Auto-save features, thus allowing you to focus on your work, not worrying about how can you revert the changes that would otherwise render your icons useless.

To sum it all up, Icon Slate is both simple to use and powerful enough to allow even the pickiest graphics designer to get the best result out of any image sample.