Design Assets

design-assets

Create and edit graphic design assets: icons, favicons, images, and color systems.

Tool Selection

| Task | Tool | Why | |------|------|-----| | AI image generation | nano-banana-pro | Generate images from text prompts | | Image resize/convert | sips | macOS native, fast, no deps | | Advanced manipulation | ImageMagick | Compositing, effects, batch processing | | Icons & logos | SVG | Scalable, small file size, editable | | Screenshots | screencapture | macOS native |

App Icon Generation

Generate all required sizes from a single 1024x1024 source icon.

iOS / macOS Icon Sizes

#!/bin/bash
generate-app-icons.sh  
SOURCE="$1"
OUTDIR="${2:-.}"
mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
SIZES=(16 20 29 32 40 48 58 60 64 76 80 87 120 128 152 167 180 256 512 1024)
for SIZE in "${SIZES[@]}"; do
  sips -z $SIZE $SIZE "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/icon-${SIZE}x${SIZE}.png" 2>/dev/null
done
echo "Generated ${#SIZES[@]} icon sizes in $OUTDIR"

Android Icon Sizes

# Android adaptive icon sizes
declare -A ANDROID_SIZES=(
  ["mdpi"]=48 ["hdpi"]=72 ["xhdpi"]=96
  ["xxhdpi"]=144 ["xxxhdpi"]=192
)
for DENSITY in "${!ANDROID_SIZES[@]}"; do
  SIZE=${ANDROID_SIZES[$DENSITY]}
  mkdir -p "res/mipmap-$DENSITY"
  sips -z $SIZE $SIZE "$SOURCE" --out "res/mipmap-$DENSITY/ic_launcher.png"
done

Favicon Generation

#!/bin/bash
generate-favicons.sh  
SOURCE="$1"
OUTDIR="${2:-.}"
mkdir -p "$OUTDIR"
Standard web favicons
sips -z 16 16 "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/favicon-16x16.png"
sips -z 32 32 "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/favicon-32x32.png"
sips -z 180 180 "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/apple-touch-icon.png"
sips -z 192 192 "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/android-chrome-192x192.png"
sips -z 512 512 "$SOURCE" --out "$OUTDIR/android-chrome-512x512.png"
ICO file (requires ImageMagick)
magick "$OUTDIR/favicon-16x16.png" "$OUTDIR/favicon-32x32.png" "$OUTDIR/favicon.ico"
echo "Favicons generated in $OUTDIR"

HTML Meta Tags

site.webmanifest

{
  "name": "My App",
  "short_name": "App",
  "icons": [
    { "src": "/android-chrome-192x192.png", "sizes": "192x192", "type": "image/png" },
    { "src": "/android-chrome-512x512.png", "sizes": "512x512", "type": "image/png" }
  ],
  "theme_color": "#ffffff",
  "background_color": "#ffffff",
  "display": "standalone"
}

Color Palette Generator

Given a primary color, generate a full palette:

// HSL-based palette generation
function generatePalette(hue, saturation = 70) {
  return {
    50:  hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 97%),
    100: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 94%),
    200: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 86%),
    300: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 74%),
    400: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 62%),
    500: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 50%),  // Primary
    600: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 42%),
    700: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 34%),
    800: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 26%),
    900: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 18%),
    950: hsl(${hue}, ${saturation}%, 10%),
  };
}

ImageMagick Quick Reference

# Resize
magick input.png -resize 800x600 output.png
Convert format
magick input.png output.webp
Add border
magick input.png -border 10 -bordercolor "#333" output.png
Round corners (with transparency)
magick input.png \( +clone -alpha extract -draw "roundrectangle 0,0,%[w],%[h],20,20" \) -alpha off -compose CopyOpacity -composite output.png
Composite / overlay
magick base.png overlay.png -gravity center -composite output.png
Batch resize all PNGs
magick mogrify -resize 50% *.png
Create solid color image
magick -size 1200x630 xc:"#1a1a2e" output.png
Add text to image
magick input.png -gravity south -pointsize 24 -fill white -annotate +0+20 "Caption" output.png

sips Quick Reference (macOS)

# Resize (maintain aspect ratio)
sips --resampleWidth 800 input.png --out output.png
Exact resize
sips -z 600 800 input.png --out output.png
Convert format
sips -s format jpeg input.png --out output.jpg
Get image info
sips -g all input.png
Rotate
sips --rotate 90 input.png --out output.png