![]() Apple typically uses 35% opacity to indicate disabled elements. ![]() This is often used to indicate state, like volume or Wi-Fi strength. If needed, it’s possible to use different levels of opacity to provide shading. Given colour is ignored, template image artwork should be created as a solid colour icon. Template images are preferred, because they’re automatically tinted to match the system icons in light mode and dark mode, without the need for different assets. A template image is a standard image, but macOS will ignore the colour, and only use the alpha channel information. Menu bar extras can be full colour, or monochrome template images. There should typically not be any padding, unless it is needed to assist with vertical centering. Assets can be a different size, provided they’re not taller than 22pt. A good size for a circular item to feel the same weight as system menu bar items is 16×16pt. Menu bar extra size #ĭespite the variation in possible menu bar heights, the working area for menu bar extras is fixed at 22pt, and items can not be taller. On a 16-inch MacBook Pro, it’s almost the same, but the middle display scaling menu bar height is 33pt, rather than 34pt. On a 14-inch MacBook Pro the menu bar can be 27pt, 29pt, 34pt, 37pt, or 43pt tall, depending on the display scaling setting. When display scaling is used, the menu bar changes height to ensure it always fits the camera housing. ![]() It’s interesting to see how the menu bar has grown over the past few decades.ġ4-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with a camera housing at the top of the screen have an even taller menu bar, measuring 37pt. The menu bar screenshots below are from 512 Pixels and the Graphical User Interface Gallery. Those sizes are in points, where 1 point is equal to 1 non-Retina pixel and 2 Retina pixels. The height of the Mac menu bar has grown a little over time, starting at 19pt on System 1, growing to 21pt for the Mac OS X beta, then 22pt in Yosemite, and finally 24pt in Big Sur, which is where it stands today. This article aims to provide additional details and context needed to create icons for macOS menu bar extras. Apple’s HIG is great, but it doesn‘t contain much information related to designing menu bar extras. ![]()
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