The desktop DMG's volume icon defaulted to the packager's icns, which is
actool's 256px fallback whenever mac.icon is the Icon Composer package, and
dmgbuild's badge option can only paste onto the stock removable-drive icon.
Ship our own drive-with-the-girl artwork instead: assets/dmg-volume.png
(hand-made, one artwork since volume icons have no appearance variants) is
emitted as apps/desktop/packaging/dmg-volume.icns, beside the DMG background
so the `files` whitelist keeps it out of the app bundle, and dmg.icon points
at it.
Tauri always uses the app icns as the volume icon and offers no override, so
the bootstrap workflow runs scripts/bundles/set_dmg_volume_icon.sh on the
built DMG before signing (the same .VolumeIcon.icns + custom-icon flag
dmgbuild sets), and the verify step checks the icon is on the mounted image.
Verified on macOS 26.6.2: both DMGs render the identical volume icon.
Next to macOS 26's own icons the flat plate + girl reads better than the
ringed tile, so the ring is off in every output: the tiles' inward stroke,
the layered icon's border layer and its targets. BORDER_ENABLED keeps the
ring code one flag away.
Without a ring the girl's lowest nodes are dragged past the tile edge
(EDGE_OVERSHOOT) so the outline crops her instead of leaving a gap.
Clear light/dark and Tinted light/dark now come from one grayscale mono
layer with Liquid Glass on: the parts of the girl that are black in light
mode become a near-black frosted ink (0.13 @ 90%), her white parts stay
white, each pixel painted exactly once so materials never stack. The art
layer hides under "tinted" and the mono layer shows only there.
Mac girl at 1.06x (between main's 1.12x and the layers' 1.0x), for the icns
and the layered icon alike. Chosen from a six-appearance matrix of real
IconServices renders next to Finder.
User installs failed with 'resvg-py is missing' because the web/desktop
source builds rendered icons on whatever python was on PATH. The default
brand outputs are now committed; source_build, apps/desktop build.mjs and
the npm/docusaurus pre-hooks consume them directly. Flavored release
bundles (canary/commit) still render into their own product dir.
icons-freshness-check now regenerates and fails on any byte diff.
Testers reported the macOS app icon reads oversized next to other apps:
the full-bleed 1024 squircle master put the shape ~149px past Apple's
icon grid on every side. macOS icns targets now render from an in-memory
mac master built on new squircle-mac-{light,dark} backgrounds — the same
white/#0d1117 squircle at 824x824 (r=185.4) centered in 1024 with 100px
margins, with the girl box scaled by 824/1024 to keep her relative size
inside the shape. All non-mac targets keep the full-bleed squircle.
- website wordmarks (logo.png/logo-dark.png) drop the black/white frame:
the girl alone on transparency, black for light navbar / white for dark
(docusaurus srcDark stays)
- BrandMark marks are now the app-icon squircle itself (transparent
corners, 824px safe-zone composition) instead of plain tiles; the
components no longer paint a tile/rounding
- generated icon outputs are NOT committed anymore: all 35 targets are
gitignored and regenerated on demand by the consuming pipelines via the
new scripts/generate-icons.mjs (website prebuild, desktop prebuild+dev,
installer prebuild, web prebuild)
- freshness lane switched from byte-compare to structural verification
(sizes, squircle corner transparency, ICO frame sets via header parse) —
no more windows/ubuntu byte drift dance
- marks saved as 8-bit palette PNGs (FASTOCTREE quantize keeps per-index
alpha tRNS -> 2.5KB, AA edges preserved); compose_svg renders in the
background's native space so resvg scales per output size
The icon pipeline now composes all 35 targets from two source axes instead
of a single hand-edited master:
- girl art: assets/nous-girl-black.svg / nous-girl-white.svg (brand kit)
- backgrounds: assets/backgrounds/ (squircle light/dark, logo frames,
BrandMark tiles)
assets/icon-master*.svg are generated artifacts (squircle background + girl
nested in the 824px HIG content safe zone). New dark-appearance artifacts
(icon-dark.* containers, appx *-dark logos, logo-dark wordmark,
nous-logo-dark) land everywhere a surface consumes them: docusaurus navbar
srcDark, BrandMark dark tile (keyed off renderedMode).
nous-girl.jpg jpgs are replaced by lossless 8-bit palette PNGs saved with
compress_level=0 (stored deflate blocks, byte-identical across hosts for
the CI freshness lane).
Includes the temp linux-truth harvest step in icons-freshness-check.yml so
the committed compressed bytes can be refreshed from the ubuntu regen.
- Updated the README to include a new banner image and changed the title emoji from 🦋 to ⚕.
- Modified various CLI outputs and scripts to reflect the new branding, ensuring consistency in the use of the ⚕ emoji.
- Added a new banner image asset for enhanced visual appeal during installation and setup processes.
