Iconic

Design beautiful, consistent icons — one at a time, or a thousand.

A lightweight, layer-based icon editor with real-time effects, animated GIF export, batch processing, and a CLI for headless workflows. Design once, export individually or process entire folders in one click.

Coming Soon

Iconic — Live editor preview with effects and layer system

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Features

Everything you need to design, customize, and batch-export professional icons.

Smart Recoloring

Recolor every image in a batch to match your design, rasters and SVGs alike.

CLI / Headless Mode

Render icons and run batch jobs from the command line, with no GUI.

11 Visual Effects

Plugin-style effects pipeline — apply per-layer or post-composite. Toggle Off / On / GIF to compare, or see every parameter in the guide.

Glitch

Video stream corruption — buffering artifacts, macroblocking, row shifting, channel separation, and pixel dropout.

Intensity, Row Shift, Channel Sep, Scanlines, Pixel Dropout, Pixelation, Buffering, Noise, Scanline Shift, Phase

Underglow

Radiates a colored glow from the border edge, either outward or inward.

Intensity, Spread, Direction, Glow Color, Saturation, Pulse

Bevel

Adds a 3D beveled highlight/shadow to the border edge.

Intensity, Width, Light Angle, Invert

Scanlines

CRT-style horizontal scanlines with adjustable spacing and padding.

Opacity, Spacing, Thickness, Padding, Scroll Speed, Phase

Chromatic Aberration

RGB channel offset for a broken-lens cyberpunk look.

Intensity, Angle, Pulse, Phase

Hue Shift

Rotate all colors through the spectrum — great for rainbow cycling.

Shift, Cycle Speed, Phase

Pixelate

Retro mosaic pixel-art downscale effect.

Block Size, Pulse, Phase

Outline

Adds a colored outline around the layer content.

Thickness, Color, Saturation, Lightness, Opacity

Drop Shadow

Adds a colored drop shadow behind the layer content.

Offset X, Offset Y, Blur, Color, Saturation, Lightness, Opacity

Dot Matrix

Retro dot-matrix display with soft glow and pulse animation.

Dot Size, Spacing, Brightness, Glow Intensity, Glow Spread, Pulse Amount, Pulse Speed, Phase, Round Dots, Background Darkness

Border Noise

Jagged / lightning-bolt border distortion.

Intensity, Frequency, Animate Speed, Phase

How It Works

Three workflows — design single icons, batch-process entire folders, or expand your icon library.

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Design an Icon

1.Set canvas size (72×72 or 144×144), pick border/background colors, corner radius, and padding
2.Add layers — image, icon glyph, SVG, text, or shape. Adjust Scale, Opacity, and Offset for each
3.Apply effects — 11 built-in: attach per-layer with +FX or apply post-composite
4.Export as lossless PNG or animated GIF. Save your project as a reusable .ipj template

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Batch Process a Folder

1.Design your template — mark one layer as 📌 Placeholder (swapped per source image)
2.Open Batch Process — choose a source folder or one of your icon sets
3.Optional: enable Smart Recolor to replace white pixels in rasters or override SVG fills
4.Click Batch Export — one icon per source file, all layers and effects applied

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Build Your Icon Library

1.Open the Icon Browser
2.Point Iconic at any folder of SVGs and it becomes a searchable icon set
3.Or import your own SVG collection from any local folder — instantly available in the browser

CLI & Headless Mode

Run Iconic from the command line — no GUI required. Ideal for CI/CD pipelines, build scripts, and automated workflows.

Batch Mode

Stamp a template design onto every icon in a source set.

# Stamp a template across a folder of images

iconic -batch \

-source ./raw-icons \

-out ./output \

-template my-style.ipj

Single Render

Render a template as-is to PNG — no source substitution.

# Render single icon

iconic -render \

-out screenshot.png \

-template my-icon.ipj

Flexible Source Targeting

./raw-icons— Every image in that folder

MySet-34— The 34th icon in that set (1-based)

MySet-Sword— Icon named "Sword" in that set

MySet— Every icon in one of your icon sets

feather-heart— Named icon from your icon library

C:\path\to\folder— All images in a local directory

Works identically on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Published binaries include all native dependencies.

Output Sizes

72 × 72

Standard — smaller button grids

144 × 144

HD — high-DPI displays, larger buttons

Both sizes exported as lossless PNG with transparent-aware RGBA compositor. Animated effects export as GIF89a with configurable frame count and delay.

Ready to design?

Iconic is coming soon. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux.