Icon Poseur

Ever since personal computers started being adopted into the mainstream, many sought to explore the newfound market for both consumer and enterprise-grade PC programs. In order to make sure your utility stands out from the crowd, making a logo that fully represents the scope of the available features is incredibly important for establishing your brand, which is where Icon Poseur comes into play, with its ability to create versatile icons for developers targeting macOS and Windows platforms.

When starting up the app, users are greeted to a straightforward interface with power-user-level type of flexibility thanks to its quintessential top command ribbon organizing the available functions in drop-down categories optimized for mouse-based workflows, while those with keyboard-oriented usage patterns have dedicated hotkey combinations displayed next to each feature’s tag, for a higher degree of accessibility that makes the app fit your requirements.

Developers creating cross-platform applications that also run on macOS can make use of the app’s default standard .icns template that can also be set in retina, classic and compressed styles if necessary. Otherwise, Windows users who simply want to craft their own icon file for their programs, shortcuts or file folders can create a new template in the standard format that features five ranges of sizes that the operating system supports when scaling icons on the desktop or file explorer.

Target images can be dragged to the outlines corresponding to your desired size, or they can be also copied to the clipboard and pasted quickly in each square selection for a faster experience. An advanced style of template is available, allowing users to set icon formats in various color depths, alongside the option to load and select color tables when required. Finally, since the app technically supports saving in any format, one can export images in one of the available sizes and convert them into any format they desire, from PNG to TIFF.

If you are looking for a lightweight and portable icon creator that has support for both macOS and Windows types of icons and platforms, Icon Poseur may be the right tool for you, given its extra ability to resize images in resolutions that can fit templates used by publications or servers with preset maximum sizes.