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Wanna create Liquid Glass icons? Download Apple’s new Icon Composer tool
- Apple has introduced a new Icon Composer app for creating Liquid Glass icons that fit the new design language of iOS 26.
- Liquid Glass simulates a translucent glass-like material, offering a major visual overhaul across Apple's operating systems.
- Icon Composer lets users customize icons for various platforms like iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
- The tool is currently in beta and allows for real-time previewing of icon changes.
- Users can adjust properties like specular highlights, blur, translucency, and shadows to create unique icon designs.
- The app resembles something that the Pixelmator team, now owned by Apple, would develop.
- It enables importing finished icons into Xcode for software development or exporting flattened versions for other uses.
- Apple also released updated design resources for Sketch and app icon templates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26.
- These resources include elements like tab bars, share sheets, menus, and arrow buttons following the Liquid Glass design.
- Currently, the design resources do not cover templates for tvOS 26, visionOS 26, or watchOS 26.
- Icon Composer can be downloaded from the Apple Developer website without requiring a developer account on macOS Sequoia or later.
- The app facilitates creating multi-layer icon designs with Liquid Glass properties and dynamic lighting effects.
- Users can refine icon looks for Default, Dark, and Mono modes, compare changes to the original file, and see how icons respond to different backgrounds.
- The tool also supports annotation across appearance modes and offers easy adjustment of Liquid Glass elements.
- Apple aims to assist developers in adapting to the new Liquid Glass design language through these resources and tools.
- The Icon Composer app and design resources aim to streamline the process of creating icons that align with the latest Apple design principles.
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