Tahoe Drive Icons Pack – macOS, Windows, Linux Volumes & Disk Formats

[kgp]

Tahoe Drive Icons Pack

 

High-quality modular drive icons for assigning custom icons to macOS, Windows, Linux, EFI, Recovery and disk format volumes and partitions on macOS Tahoe.

 

Designed for Hackintosh and macOS enthusiasts.

 

All editions are intended for custom drive icons on macOS Tahoe and use standard macOS ICNS workflow.

 

Included PNG assets may also be used to generate Windows .ico files or be used directly as Linux PNG icon files.

 

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Download Source

 

GitHub Repository + Releases:

 

https://github.com/kgp-macPro/Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack

 

The repository contains:

• all preview images
• all PNG assets
• all ICNS files
• all master templates
• complete downloadable ZIP releases

 

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Real Desktop Usage

 

 

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macOS Volumes Icon Edition

 

 

Windows Volumes Icon Edition

 

 

Linux Volumes Icon Edition

 

 

Disk Formats Icon Edition

 

 

 

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Detailed Icon Variants:

 

macOS Volumes Icon Edition

 

 

Windows Volumes Icon Edition

 

 

Linux Volumes Icon Edition 

 

 

Disk Formats Icon Edition 

 

 

 

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Features

• Unified Tahoe-style design
• Identical viewing angle and geometry
• Consistent lighting and reflections
• Icons for macOS, Windows, Linux, EFI and Recovery volumes
• Icons for multiple filesystem and disk format types
• High-resolution master templates
• Ready for ICNS conversion

 

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Usage

 

Enable Disk Icons on Desktop

1. Open the macOS menu bar.
2. Select "Finder → Settings"
3. Under "Show these items on the desktop", enable: "Hard disks"

 

Adjust Desktop Disk Icon Size

1. Right-click on an empty area of the Desktop.
2. Select "Show View Options".
3. Adjust the "Icon Size" slider.

 

macOS Desktop / Finder

1. Right-click the desired disk icon on your macOS Desktop.
2. Select "Get Info".
3. Drag the respective `.icns` file onto the small icon in the upper-left corner of the Info window.
4. Close the Info window.

 

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Typical Usage Scenarios

 

The Tahoe Drive Icons Pack is especially suited for:

• macOS Desktop drive customization
• EFI partitions
• OpenCore Boot Picker environments
• Recovery volumes
• APFS / NTFS / Linux partitions
• external SSD and USB installations
• Hackintosh multi-boot systems
• OpenCore-based macOS setups

 

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Creation Process

 

As the baseline, a complete set of 12 master templates for blank system disks in 12 different colours (1254×1254 pixels each) was created together with ChatGPT.

 

The final icon sets were then manually produced and refined in Pixelmator Pro, including:

• manual background removal from the 12 master templates for blank system disks
• manual destretching and positioning of the 12 blank system disks within each canvas
• manual placement of all icons, symbols and lettering
• final visual alignment and polishing

The final conversion to ICNS files was performed with Image2Icon.

 

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Important Notes

 

Anybody willing to further improve ICNS quality is welcome to create optimized ICNS files based on the included templates.

 

The icon system was intentionally designed around a unified set of 12 blank master disk templates.

 

As long as future icons continue to use these original master templates, the entire icon family remains visually consistent, reproducible and infinitely expandable — almost like a LEGO system for Tahoe-style drive icons.

 

Future expansions could include additional external drive editions, SSD and NVMe brand editions, NAS and server environments, additional volume and partition categories, gaming-oriented themes or entirely new filesystem families — all while preserving a unified Tahoe-style visual appearance.

 

For full reproducibility and further expansion of the icon family, it is strongly recommended to continue working in Pixelmator Pro.

 

The released production PNGs preserve the layers generated within Pixelmator Pro, which were used throughout the entire icon creation workflow.

 

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Creation Process

 

As the baseline, a complete set of 12 master templates for blank system disks in 12 different colours (1254×1254 pixels each) was created together with ChatGPT.

 

The final icon sets were then manually produced and refined in Pixelmator Pro, including:

• manual background removal from the 12 master templates for blank system disks
• manual destretching and positioning of the 12 blank system disks within each canvas
• manual placement of all icons, symbols and lettering
• final visual alignment and polishing

The final conversion to ICNS files was performed with Image2Icon.

 

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Design Evolution & Credits

 

Earlier experimental releases partially used and extended existing drive icon concepts originally created by @allannyholm.

 

Starting with the final Tahoe Drive Icons releases, however, the entire project was completely reworked into a fully independent and internally consistent icon family with:

• newly created layouts
• unified disk master templates
• newly generated icon compositions
• identical geometry and viewing angles across all editions

Operating system and filesystem logos used in the icon compositions were based on publicly available SVG resources and were manually integrated into the final icon designs.

 

Special thanks to @allannyholm for the original inspiration of the early experimental design direction.

 

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Credits

• Production, design and manual refinement: KGP
• AI-assisted template generation: OpenAI ChatGPT

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp
Clarifying that Tahoe drive Icon Pack is for macOS systems with Windows, Linux and multiple disk format environments!

[chris1111]

Sorry @kgp but all of your Mod Linux icons are not really great

This is what it look like after opening the Linux icons in your link Pack 🤨

 

 

Your icons Exporting to a PNG

 

 

Here are mine, just to test a few modifications

 

 

From an ICNS

 

 

 On the other hand the original drive icon created by @allannyholm are perfectly create, He did a very good job.

 

Edited May 14 by chris1111

[chris1111]

You can also advise the original other since couple tahoe beta the drive icons have change

 

[kgp]

10 hours ago, chris1111 said:

Sorry @kgp but all of your Mod Linux icons are not really great

This is what it look like after opening the Linux icons in your link Pack 🤨

 

 

@chris1111, I spent over 8 hours reworking all the Linux icons and have now updated post 1. Please download the new ZIP file linked there.

 

In addition to the new Linux drive icons, the ZIP contains also my Template.png, which I used to cut the individual icons in Preview and to convert each drive-icon.png into a .icns file using Image2Icon.

 

If you’re still not satisfied with my work, feel free to cut the drive icons yourself from the template and convert them to .icns using your preferred tool, then send me your results.

 

Below is just a JPEG of the template at reduced quality, due to the current issue on the InsanelyMac server with uploads larger than 1 MB.

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

KGP 👍

Edited May 15 by kgp

[chris1111]

 

@kgp Its much better, great job Keep up the good work 👍

[kgp]

Finally, a rendering with the same disk size and viewing angle for each icon. 

 

Edited May 25 by kgp

[kgp]

Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack – MacOS-inspired Edition [not further available]

 

The completely reworked macOS-themed Tahoe Drive Icons Pack.

 

 

Included:

• Finder
• Apple
• macOS
• APFS
• Recovery
• Time Machine

Features:

• fully unified 6x6 Tahoe mastertemplate
• identical viewing angle and geometry
• consistent reflections and lighting
• Tahoe-inspired glossy appearance
• optimized for modern macOS and Hackintosh environments

Included color variants:

• blue
• gray
• violette
• green
• space
• black

The package contains the complete macOS icon collection in high quality.

Cheers,
KGP 👍

 

 

Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack – Windows-inspired Edition [not further available]

 

The completely reworked Windows-themed Tahoe Drive Icons Pack.

 

 

Included:

• modern Windows
• classic Windows
• Xbox
• NTFS
• WinPE
• Windows 11

Features:

• unified Tahoe drive geometry
• identical viewing angle and proportions
• clean Apple-like Tahoe aesthetics
• optimized for dual-boot and Hackintosh environments

Included color variants:

• blue
• gray
• orange
• green
• space
• black

The package contains the complete Windows icon collection in high quality.

Cheers,
KGP

Edited May 26 by kgp

[kgp]

Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack – Linux-inspired Edition [not further available]

 

The completely reworked Linux-themed Tahoe Drive Icons Pack.

 

 

Included distributions/logos:

• Tux/Linux
• Ubuntu
• Linux Mint
• Fedora
• Debian
• Arch Linux

Features:

• unified Tahoe master template
• identical geometry and perspective
• modern glossy Tahoe appearance
• optimised for Linux/macOS Hackintosh systems

Included color variants:
 

• blue
• gray
• orange
• green
• space
• black

The package contains the complete Linux icon collection in high quality.

Cheers,
KGP 👍

 

 

Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack – DiskFormat Edition [not further available]

 

The completely reworked DiskFormat-themed Tahoe Drive Icons Pack.

 

 

Included:

• APFS
• HFS+
• NTFS
• extFS
• exFAT
• blank/unformatted drive

Features:

• unified Tahoe drive geometry
• identical viewing angle and lighting
• clean minimalist file-system design
• optimized for modern storage and Hackintosh workflows

Included color variants:

• blue
• gray
• violette
• green
• space
• black

The package contains the complete Disk Format icon collection in high quality.

Cheers,
KGP 👍

Edited May 26 by kgp

[chris1111]

@kgp I think it's great that you're doing such a beautiful graphic design experience.

I hope this will encourage others. 

You can see my latest theme base on latest Tahoe disk 

You can view only the Linux Disk from this theme here Linux Tahoe Style Disk

Edited May 17 by chris1111

[kgp]

 

@chris1111, I have found a way of still optimising each icon. 

 

Previous result:

 

Now: 

 

 

 

Background removal is still not perfect but the overall quality improved a lot -> the workload too  

 

Edited May 17 by kgp

[kgp]

@chris1111, I finally pushed it almost to perfection by  completely changing my entire strategy! 😄

 

Instead of creating all icon PNGs for one icon set on a single template with ChatGPT, I ended up only creating a complete set of 12 master templates for 12 blank system disks in 12 different colours (1254×1254 pixels each) with white background together with ChatGPT.

 

 

The background removal plus all letters/icons I now performed fully manually in Pixelmator Pro.

 

 

The final conversion to ICNS I did with Image2Icon.

 

 

The drive-format set is the first complete set I already achieved.

 

Additional macOS, Windows and Linux Volumes Icon Editions are currently in preparation.

 

I even added a few more colours meanwhile 😄

 

Overview - Drive-Format-Set:

 

 

Honestly, this turned into a huge workload for a single person. 😜

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp

[miliuco]

@kgp

Much better! Improved design. Congrats. 

[kgp]

Apple design on the way 👍 Anyone wanting changes should scream now — or remain silent forever 😜

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good night, world 😉 

[kgp]

 I proudly present my newly finished macOS Volumes Icon Edition 

 

Composite Overview:

 

 

This one has by far become my favourite creation 😜

 

 

Now heading towards designing Windows and Linux Volumes Icons for Tahoe 🙏

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp

[kgp]

Finalised Windows Volumes Icon Edition! 👍

 

Composite Overview:

 

 

Some samples in detail:

 

Tomorrow I will finalise with the Linux Volumes Icon Edition... good night world 😉

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp

[kgp]

Linux Volumes Icon Edition finished 

 

 

Composite Overview:

 

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp

[kgp]

Post 1 has now been completely reworked and updated with the final release version of the Tahoe Drive Icons Pack. 

 

The project now includes:

• macOS Volumes Icon Edition
• Windows Volumes Icon Edition
• Linux Volumes Icon Edition
• Disk Formats Icon Edition

including:

• ICNS files
• PNG assets
• master templates
• complete downloadable ZIP releases
• and the original ChatGPT-generated blank disk master templates used during the creation process.

The final icon sets were manually produced, refined and completed in Pixelmator Pro.

 

Download Source (GitHub Repository + Releases):

https://github.com/kgp-macPro/Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Pack

 

Cheers,
KGP 👍

Edited 10 hours ago by kgp

[deeveedee]

Very nice!  Especially impressive considering it's your first attempt at creating macOS icons!

[kgp]

Small update:

 

I noticed that Windows11-space.png and consequently Windows11-space.icns accidentally contained a white instead of a blue Windows 11 logo in the original release. The inconsistency was also reflected in Colour-Variants-Windows.png.

 

The affected files have now been corrected and the corresponding GitHub release ZIPs:

• Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Windows-Edition.zip
• Tahoe-Drive-Icons-Complete-Pack.zip

were updated accordingly.

 

If you already downloaded one of these ZIPs, please download the updated versions again from GitHub.

 

Sorry for the oversight 🙃

Edited May 21 by kgp