Stripe Maker

In a sea of increasingly minimalistic logos for various pieces of software, it can be a challenge to make an icon that stands out from the crowd in a way that makes users instinctively recognize it in their Start Menu to avoid searching for it manually, which is where Stripe Maker comes into play, with its customizable settings that help you create the right background for your program’s icon.

Booting up the app greets users to a minimalist layout that puts forward all available controls in a single window that can fit your particular style of workspace, fill your spare screen real estate, while automatically bypassing the need for extra pop-up or drop-down menus to make the most of its functions.

The left side serves as the starting point for the stripe style, where users can adjust the angle, thickness and distance of the stripes to match your preferences. On the right side sits a live preview in which one can select the portion of the area meant to be filled with the striped background, with the additional benefit of being able to resize the app’s window for a larger canvas to work with, to make it match the aspect ratio of your icon or the background of a certain section in your application.

In terms of customization, the Microsoft Store version of the app lets you change the shade and direction of each stripe to fit in with your program’s color scheme and overall theme. With the tile’s settings altered, users can copy its dedicated data in Path Markup Syntax format suitable for both XAML and SVG-oriented development projects.

If you are a developer working on your first application and would like a colorful background that replaces the solid color given by default through your IDE, without going over the top with complex vectors, then Stripe Maker may be the right tool for you, given its ease of use and customization capabilities that give a splash your color to your app and its icon.