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Apple Icon Image
Filename extension
Type codeicns
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)com.apple.icns
Developed byApple Inc.
Type of format

The Apple Icon Image format is the icon format used in Apple Inc.'s macOS. It supports icons of 16 × 16, 32 × 32, 48 × 48, 128 × 128, 256 × 256, 512 × 512 points at 1x and 2x scale, with both 1- and 8-bitalpha channels and multiple image states (example: open and closed folders). The fixed-size icons can be scaled by the operating system and displayed at any intermediate size.

File structure[edit]

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Locate the icon for the file whose extension you want to change using the Finder's toolbar, Finder's. Nov 14, 2018 Note: If you find icons online in the.icns format, you can drag these icon types directly onto the icon in a file or folder's Info panel, thereby skipping the Preview steps described below.

The file format consists of an 8 byte header, followed by any number of icons.

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Header[edit]

OffsetSizePurpose
04Magic literal, must be 'icns' (0x69, 0x63, 0x6e, 0x73)
44Length of file, in bytes, msb first

Icon data[edit]

OffsetSizePurpose
04Icon type, see OSType below.
44Length of data, in bytes (including type and length), msb first
8VariableIcon data

Compression[edit]

lead
value
tail
bytes
result
uncompressed
012711281128 bytes
1282551 byte3130 copies

How to screenshot for mac. Over time the format has been improved and there is support for compression of some parts of the pixel data. The 32-bit ('is32', 'il32', 'ih32','it32') and ARGB ('ic04', 'ic05') pixel data are often compressed (per channel) with a format similar to PackBits.[1]Some sources mentioned that the OS supports both compressed or uncompressed data chunks.

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Mac Change Default Icon For File Type

Locate the icon for the file whose extension you want to change using the Finder's toolbar, Finder's. Nov 14, 2018 Note: If you find icons online in the.icns format, you can drag these icon types directly onto the icon in a file or folder's Info panel, thereby skipping the Preview steps described below.

The file format consists of an 8 byte header, followed by any number of icons.

Header[edit]

OffsetSizePurpose
04Magic literal, must be 'icns' (0x69, 0x63, 0x6e, 0x73)
44Length of file, in bytes, msb first

Icon data[edit]

OffsetSizePurpose
04Icon type, see OSType below.
44Length of data, in bytes (including type and length), msb first
8VariableIcon data

Compression[edit]

lead
value
tail
bytes
result
uncompressed
012711281128 bytes
1282551 byte3130 copies

How to screenshot for mac. Over time the format has been improved and there is support for compression of some parts of the pixel data. The 32-bit ('is32', 'il32', 'ih32','it32') and ARGB ('ic04', 'ic05') pixel data are often compressed (per channel) with a format similar to PackBits.[1]Some sources mentioned that the OS supports both compressed or uncompressed data chunks.

The following pseudocode decompresses the data:

Example: 02 01 02 02 80 03 81 04 82 05 should decompress to 01 02 02 03 03 03 04 04 04 04 05 05 05 05 05

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Icon types[edit]

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OSTypeLength (bytes)Size (pixels)Supported OS VersionDescription
ICON128321.032×32 1-bit mono icon
ICN#256326.032×32 1-bit mono icon with 1-bit mask
icm#48166.016×12 1 bit mono icon with 1-bit mask
icm496167.016×12 4 bit icon
icm8192167.016×12 8 bit icon
ics#64 (32 img + 32 mask)166.016×16 1-bit mask
ics4128167.016×16 4-bit icon
ics8256167.016x16 8 bit icon
is32varies (768)168.516×16 24-bit icon
s8mk256168.516x16 8-bit mask
icl4512327.032×32 4-bit icon
icl81,024327.032×32 8-bit icon
il32varies (3,072)328.532x32 24-bit icon
l8mk1,024328.532×32 8-bit mask
ich#288488.548×48 1-bit mask
ich41,152488.548×48 4-bit icon
ich82,304488.548×48 8-bit icon
ih32varies (6,912)488.548×48 24-bit icon
h8mk2,304488.548×48 8-bit mask
it32varies (49,152)12810.0128×128 24-bit icon
t8mk16,38412810.0128×128 8-bit mask
icp4varies1610.716x16 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
icp5varies3210.732x32 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
icp6varies6410.764x64 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic07varies12810.7128x128 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic08varies25610.5256×256 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic09varies51210.5512×512 icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic10varies102410.71024×1024 in 10.7 (or 512x512@2x 'retina' in 10.8) icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic11varies3210.816x16@2x 'retina' icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic12varies6410.832x32@2x 'retina' icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic13varies25610.8128x128@2x 'retina' icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic14varies51210.8256x256@2x 'retina' icon in JPEG 2000 or PNG format
ic04varies1616x16 ARGB
ic05varies3232x32 ARGB
icsBvaries3636x36
icsbvaries1818x18
  • the values inside the brackets () in the length column is the uncompressed length.
  • the ARGB format consists of the ascii values for 'ARGB' and the four compressed channels tightly packed

Other types[edit]

OSTypeLength (bytes)Description
'TOC 'varies'Table of Contents' a list of all image types in the file, and their sizes (added in Mac OS X 10.7)
'icnV'44-byte big endian float - equal to the bundle version number of Icon Composer.app that created to icon
'name'Unknown
'info'259Info binary plist. Usage unknown

Support[edit]

Various image viewers can load *.icns files, and free and open source converters from or to PNG also exist.[2][3]GTK+ can load *.icns resources since 2007.[4] Other tools supporting the format include the Apple Icon Composer and icns Browser, The Iconfactory, and IconBuilder.
MacOS[clarification needed] offers the built-in iconutil command line tool to pack and unpack *.icns files.

External links[edit]

  • IconFamily – Open source Objective C class to read and write Apple icns files
  • osxiconutils - Command line tools to work with Apple icns files

See also[edit]

How To Change The Icon For A File Type In Windows? » Winhelponline

  • ICO format on Windows
  • X PixMap format for X11

Change File Icon Windows 10

References[edit]

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  1. ^Macintosh Icons
  2. ^'libicns'. SourceForge project icns. 2009. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  3. ^'png2icns'. Moin Uddin. 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  4. ^Lyonel Vincent (2007). 'Mac OS X icons for GTK+'. Retrieved August 18, 2016.

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