{"id":7237,"date":"2019-09-03T14:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T19:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=7342"},"modified":"2019-09-11T20:53:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T01:53:45","slug":"personalize-your-mac-with-custom-document-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/personalize-your-mac-with-custom-document-icons\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalize Your Mac with Custom Document Icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you\u2019d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it\u2019s still possible in modern versions of macOS. Go to <a href=\"https:\/\/images.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Images<\/a> and search for \u201c<i>searchTerm<\/i> icon\u201d to see what images are available. (It\u2019s fine to use any graphic for one-time personal use; if you\u2019re planning to distribute the file or publish the icon in any way, make sure to read and honor any licensing requirements.) Download an image you like (Control-click it and look for a Save Image command), open it in Preview (where you can delete any background or crop as desired), press Command-A for Select All, and Command-C to copy the image. Then select the icon for the file you want to customize, press Command-I to open its Get Info window, click the current icon in the upper-left corner (it gets a faint highlight outline), and press Command-V to paste.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7343\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/personalize-your-mac-with-custom-document-icons.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"813\" height=\"445\"><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@andreuuuw?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Wulf<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/rubber-duck?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unsplash<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you\u2019d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it\u2019s still possible in modern versions of macOS. Go to Google Images [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7262,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}