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Asked: 2026-06-11T08:42:55+00:00

The Designing Toolbar Icons ‘ section of OS X Human Interface Guidelines says that

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The Designing Toolbar Icons‘ section of OS X Human Interface Guidelines says that the system applies effects on icons in the toolbar that change their appearance. In other words, we have to create a solid black icon like this:

Solid black icon

and the system displays it like this:

System processed icon

That’s great, but it does not work for me.

I’m using Interface Builder. I have a Rounded Textured Button inside a NSToolbarItem:

Interface Builder Hierarchy

I have assigned a solid black icon to the toolbar item:

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When I show it, however, it appears like a… solid black icon:

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What am I doing wrong? This thing is driving me crazy.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to rename your icon from Test to TestTemplate. You can find more information about this trick in OS X Release Notes.

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