Sublime Text Replacement Icon

November 19, 2011 | by Kreg Wallace

I’ve been a long-time user of Textmate for all of my web coding and general plain-text editing needs. The application is packed with amazing features and I love the simplicity of its interface. However, the long intervals between new Textmate updates have led me to investigate a few alternatives…

The most appealing of the Textmate alternatives I examined is Sublime Text. Sublime Text is an upstart text editor that closely follows the Textmate model of what a text-editor should be while adding some compelling new features to the mix. Sublime’s coding features rock, but being a design guy as well as a web developer, I’ve found its rather distinct lack of eye candy to be a major drawback.

To help address the eye candy issue, I decided to take a shot at making a replacement to Sublime Text’s default application icon. That lime slice and sketchy ‘S’ number you see at the top of this post is the result. In case you are unfamiliar with Sublime Text’s current application icon, it’s the grey square to the right of this paragraph.

The replacement icon is available for download in a variety of formats using the link below. As Sublime Text is a cross-platform app, I’ve included icon options for Mac (ICNS), Windows (ICO), and Linux (PNG) in sizes ranging from 512×512 to 16×16 pixels.

Installation

To install the replacement icon on a Mac, navigate to your “Applications” folder, then right-click the “Sublime Text 2″ package, and select “Show Package Contents”. Now you can navigate to /Contents/Resources/ and replace the “Sublime Text 2.icns” file with the one included in the ZIP — Be sure to back-up the original icon file in case you want to restore it later.

I’m not sure where you would replace the icon files on a Windows or Linux installation, but have a look around in the folder where you installed Sublime Text and you’ll likely find the appropriate files.

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