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Fun InDesign and Creative Suite Application Icons
On a lark, I went searching for fun and different application icons for InDesign… you know, in case you’re tired of looking at the one Adobe ships. Some of these are designed to replace InDesign’s icon itself; others are folder icons, made to designate either the InDesign application folder or a folder in which you keep InDesign files.
Here are some of the best I found:
- These awesome winners of the QuarkvsInDesign.com icon contest
- Rocketdock’s butterfly folder
- IconArchive’s pink butterfly and other CS icons
- VeryIcon odd gradient butterfly
- Adam Betts CS3 icons and CS4 icons (here’s something about them being updated)
- IconArchive’s cool InDesign pink folder icon
- IconFarm’s gray butterfly
- UseIcons display of a wide variety of Adobe icons
- Iconspedia pink butterfly icon
I hope you enjoy them!
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Nice collection of icons!
My favorite: the pry icon set
https://www.iconarchive.com/category/folder/pry-cs3-icons-by-jonas-rask.html
A lot of those icons look really cool and neat. I’ve never been too bothered in changing how folders look, but I’m guessing loads of people are. They are nice though. Perhaps Adobe could take a lesson from that – if they were default folder icons then it would be nicer – or the choice to have an icon set when installing or something. Anyway, that’s a very nice compilation of icon sets.
Some of these are cool but imho you’re talking about disabling one of the best features of CS3/4.
I cannot count the number of times that I and other users here used to accidentally mixed up Acrobat 7 and IDCS2 because they are both pinkish icons with “something” in the middle (small Docks exacerbate the issue). When Adobe sat down and redesigned the icons with very distinct colors and a couple of “guide” initials in them, it was a great day indeed for ease-of-use.
Fun post. I always like seeing what other people are doing with their icons. Here’s a link to another cool set.
https://wvw.downarchive.com/2008/07/29/adobe-cs3-dock-icons-set.html
Cool icon set Pariah just pointed out.
Another really excellent icon hosted at rocketdock.
I am trying to change my CS4 InDesign icon with an .icns file but it doesn’t seem to be working and my attempts have deleted the original icon. Could someone please be so kind as to type the name of the original InDesign .icns icon in CS4 so I can save another version? Would really really appreciate it!
Alicia: ID_App_Icon.icns
Gosh, I really like the Rockdock one!
It looks like this…