MAC GRAPHITE COLOR FOLDER ICON HOW TO
MAC GRAPHITE COLOR FOLDER ICON MAC

Select any item you want to change, like your main HD icon or a folder, and click 'Get Info.' Here you'll see the icon of your object in the top left corner of the new window.

If you feel like just replacing individual icons with the old school versions - like the ones on your desktop specifically, while leave the rest of the system's icons alone - you can do so by doing the following: Now you have the choice as to just how deep you want your retro conversion to go. (I found the icons I'm using on a MacWorld forum thread where a kind user has provided four folders worth of ripped retro icons - Thanks Macosnoob!)

MAC GRAPHITE COLOR FOLDER ICON MAC

Depending on which versions of retro Mac you hold dear, you may want to find an icon pack from OS 8 or OS 9, but for the purposes of really throwing Yosemite back in time we'll go with System 7's low-res icon art.ĭownload a System 7 icon collection from wherever you can find it. Now that your desktop is looking as bare and basic as it did when Nirvana was at the top of the charts, it's time to give your icons some much needed love. Under Desktop & Screensaver, select Solid Colors and then choose Solid Gray Medium (or Solid Gray Dark, depending on your taste, both are pretty close). Under Accessibility, toggle both 'Reduce Transparency' and 'Increase Contrast' on. Under General, change the Appearance selection to 'Graphite' and the Highlight color to 'Graphite' as well. We'll be taking the concept a couple steps further to make this the ultimate retro tweak.įor starters, there are a few system changes you need to make to lay the groundwork for the conversion, so take care of the following under your System Preferences menu first: Note: These tweaks were inspired by a guide published on WonderHowTo, so a tip of the hat for the idea.

MAC GRAPHITE COLOR FOLDER ICON HOW TO

Today, not so much, but if you long for the look of yesteryear anyway, here's how to tweak Yosemite and make it look it was released over two decades ago. Way back when Macs ran on CPUs with speeds of 33MHz (or even less), OS 7 - also called System 7 - was the best looking operating system most users had ever seen. Yes, OS X Yosemite is sexy, modern, and a far cry from what Apple desktops ran 20+ years ago, but that doesn't mean there's no value in nostalgia.

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