Been meaning to add a touch of your own personality to the desktop? Creating your own icons from scratch is easier than you probably thought. Whether you ride the Photoshop bus or the GIMP train, ...

Update: Thanks to MacStories reader Thomas, I was able to remove the need to upload image assets to Dropbox. The shortcut is now much faster to run (takes about 5 seconds instead of 20) and doesn’t ...

iOS 14’s most popular feature has quickly become the all-new widgets that can give your iPhone a personalized touch. However, going further than that, custom iOS 14 aesthetics have become a huge trend ...

Mac user Alex mounts a few different hard drives on his Mac, and wanted an easy way to tell them apart - so he made a custom icon for each. To do this yourself you need Icon Composer, which is ...

Customization, tinkering, and personalization have always been at the heart of what makes the Android operating system, Android. Most manufacturers ship their phones packaged with their custom Android ...

When it comes to customizing your Android device, one of the most enticing options of all is to make your own icons. You can choose unique homemade graphics for each icon, or create a uniform scheme ...

Themed Icons on Android are a throwback to the days of icon packs and sometimes chaotic customization. While they are fun and inviting, a lot of apps still don’t have a themed icons variant. This ...

Use a Square Image with a Transparent Background: For optimal results, use a square image with a transparent background. You can find such images online or create them using photo editing tools.

A new app called Mycons launched today and is tapping into the iOS 14 home screen customization trend by making it easier for anyone, including non-designers, to quickly create their own custom icons, ...

We are using the term emoji quite loosely here, because you can’t actually hack into the official Unicode list. Reading time 5 minutes Was there ever a time that we were able to communicate without ...

Icons have come a long way in the past decade, evolving from tiny, pixelated pictures into glossy, gorgeous artwork. Adding a custom icon to an application, document, or folder has evolved, too. You ...