[Icon] Modern Mac theme based on SF Symbols

[utterances]

Hi Calibre community!
Long time user finally trying my hands at some design. I've attempted an icon pack to make Calibre look more at home on modern macOS designs, by using glyphs from SF Symbols.

I've try to translate the iconography with a lot of inspiration from Nicholas' Highlights theme. Most are monochrome with a dash of colour to consistently indicate states and actions. See examples below:

About more than half of the glyphs are directly from SF Symbols and coloured, the remaining I made to match the design language. SF Symbols are licensed for used on Apple platforms, I don't see they give guidance on how it's used outside Mac. The rest of glyphs I made are Creative Commons (CC BY-NC).

this is just a first draft, I didn't cover plugins, feedback and request are welcome!

[kovidgoyal]

Thanks, am sure will be appreciated by mac users. Have made it available via calibre's Change icon theme function.

[utterances]

thanks for adding it to the feed! Sorry you might have to update it soon.

I'm renaming it to avoid any trademark issues, now it's called San Francisco , and San Francisco Night for dark mode people. I should've avoided the Mac name earlier...

p.s. I was gonna edit the initial post but can't find the edit button??

[theducks]

The edit button is suppressed for new users as an Anti-Spam tool. There is some formula the board uses and then it will allow PM, edits.

[democrite]

Thanks for the theme. I hope someday calibre may offer the ability to dynamically change icons on light/dark mode switch. If you also made the night mode theme, I think you notice that each set is distinguishable only when in a particular mode -- difficult to read otherwise --, thus when switching modes that many of us do daily, one then needs to switch theme. In the meantime, before calibre offers such if it someday does, alternatives? Maybe some script that copies the files to some folder and then restarts calibre? I haven't looked, possible auto run applescript on system mode change?

[utterances]

Originally Posted by democrite

Thanks for the theme. I hope someday calibre may offer the ability to dynamically change icons on light/dark mode switch. If you also made the night mode theme, I think you notice that each set is distinguishable only when in a particular mode -- difficult to read otherwise --, thus when switching modes that many of us do daily, one then needs to switch theme.

looks like the latest Calibre finally supports some type of dark/light mode auto switch? but I'm trying to update this icon set now to include both modes in the same package, im having trouble with this file name suffix though, according to this

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/cus...me-for-calibre

I just need to append -for-dark-theme and -for-light-theme to the file name. this is my draft icon pack but looks like calibre is not recognizing it when I try to make the pack. Any developer help please??

[kovidgoyal]

That's just the theme creation dialog that wont recognize for dark/light theme icons that dont also have those variants in the builtin icon set. The theme should still be created correctly and work once installed. If not let me know.

[kovidgoyal]

And this should fix the theme creation dialog:
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...95690720598afa

[utterances]

really appreciate the help @kovidgoyal

here's updated icon pack (3.0) combining both dark and light theme into one pack now, I think it works on mine but please let me know if anything is broken

[kovidgoyal]

updated in calibre.