Decant: Liquid Glass icons reverse engineered
A developer reverse engineered the "Liquid Glass" icons from the upcoming visionOS 2 update, creating an open-source replica set called Decant that replicates the fluid, translucent aesthetic of Apple's new icon design language.
Background
- "Liquid Glass" is a visual style used in Apple's macOS Big Sur and later, characterized by translucent, frosted-glass-like UI elements with depth, blur, and vibrant colors.
- This project ("Decant") is a reverse-engineering effort that recreates Apple's proprietary Liquid Glass icons from scratch, analyzing their visual properties (gradients, shadows, highlights) to produce open-source replicas.
- The name "decant" is a play on words: to decant a liquid (pour gently) and to deconstruct/decode ("de-cant") the glass style.
- This matters because Apple's design assets are closed-source; independent developers, designers, or app makers who want native-feeling icons for non-Apple platforms (e.g., Linux, Windows) or custom themes have lacked freely usable, pixel-accurate versions.