ICNS

File Format
Name	ICNS
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics ICNS
Extension(s)	.icns
PRONOM	fmt/1185

ICNS (often written in lowercase as icns) is the native icon format of Mac OS and OS X.

It goes by many other names, including Apple Icon, Macintosh Icon, Mac OS Icon, Macintosh OS X Icon, Mac OS X Icon Resource, Mac OS icns Resource, and IconFamily Resource.

There are usually multiple images in a file. Supported image sizes are 16×12, and 16, 32, 48, 128, 256, 512, and 1024 pixels square.

Identification

Files begin with ASCII characters "icns".

Related formats

Macintosh resource file‎s often contain icons with the same IDs and formats as certain ICNS segments. Also, Macintosh resource file‎s can contain encapsulated ICNS files, with resource type "icns".

Some ICNS files contain icons in the form of embedded PNG or JP2 files.

Software

• Konvertor
• libicns
  • icns2png
• XnView
• Deark

Sample files

• http://www.team-5.org/_assets/images/simpleicons/ICNS/
• http://www.prayingpelicanmissions.org/img/flags/flat/icns/
• http://www.caritasfreetown.org:81/images/open_icon_library-full/icons/icns/

Links

• Wikipedia article