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Jannis Braun bdfd38bc90 feat(brand): add SVG-driven icon generator (scripts/gen-icons.mjs)
Single Node ESM script. Reads assets/brand/*.svg, writes the full
desktop + web icon set deterministically. Idempotent; safe to re-run.
Companion README documents the version-bump determinism caveat.
2026-04-27 14:20:34 +02:00

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Icon Generator

Regenerates every brand artefact from assets/brand/*.svg:

  • macOS .icns, Windows .ico, Linux per-size PNGs (packages/desktop/build/)
  • Tray icons for all three platforms (packages/desktop/resources/)
  • Web favicons, PWA manifest icons, maskable, in-app logo.png (packages/web/public/icons/)

When to run

After changing any file under assets/brand/, or after bumping sharp, png-to-ico, or png2icons in the root package.json. Commit the diff in the same PR.

pnpm gen-icons
git status                       # review which files changed
git add -A
git commit -m "chore: regenerate brand icons"

Determinism

Output is byte-stable for a given lockfile. The same SVGs in produce the same PNG/ICO/ICNS bytes out, every time, on every OS — Sharp uses resvg internally and writes deterministic PNGs, png-to-ico and png2icons don't embed timestamps.

Caveat: byte-stability is not guaranteed across version bumps of the three encoder deps. After a Renovate / dependabot PR upgrades any of them, run pnpm gen-icons once and commit the resulting diff inside the same PR. That follow-up commit isn't an artwork change — it's encoder output drift, and gating it inside the dep PR keeps the artwork-change git history clean.

Source SVGs

Brand source Drives
assets/brand/app-icon.svg Every full app icon, all favicons, PWA
assets/brand/mark.svg Win/Linux tray, in-app logo, PWA maskable
assets/brand/mark-mono-dark.svg macOS menu-bar template (alpha + black)

Artworks-Backspace/ is the design archive — never read by this script.