Multi-Colored Apple Logo on Menu Bar, Sonoma?

[mac57mac57]

IMHO, the macOS GUI has been getting plainer and plainer as time goes on. I really dislike the flat, minimalist approach to GUI presentation that is all the rage these days. Back when Mac OS X was just getting its legs under it, Steve Jobs famously proclaimed "we made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them". These days, NOTHING looks that good anymore. Such a shame.

One victim of this is the beautiful multi-colored Apple logo that used to adorn the upper left corner of the menu bar. Quite a long time ago, perhaps with the introduction of Mac OS X, it changed to a solid color. In Sonoma, it is just boring white. Through the years, there have been a variety of programs that allowed users to replace the boring mono-color Apple logo with the more colorful legacy one. Classic Menu was wonderful for this in the PPC era, then came Fruit Menu in the early Intel days and now... well, I am not sure about now, hence this post.

Does ANYONE know of a program or a hack that would replace the boring white Apple logo on the menubar with something more visually interesting? Thanks!

 

[Geoff777]

This looks very dodgy, proceed at your own risk, but it does show others would also like it changed!

GitHub - lihaoyun6/Logoer: Change the style of the Apple logo in macOS menu bar / 更换macOS菜单栏苹果Logo样式的小工具

Change the style of the Apple logo in macOS menu bar / 更换macOS菜单栏苹果Logo样式的小工具 - lihaoyun6/Logoer

github.com

 

[mac57mac57]

THANK YOU!! It may be dodgy, but it works beautifully on Sonoma, on my new MacBook Pro.

 

[zevrix]

Back when Mac OS X was just getting its legs under it, Steve Jobs famously proclaimed "we made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them". These days, NOTHING looks that good anymore.

I understand your point. However, it's a matter of taste.

I never liked the original Aqua "lickable" buttons. I was glad Apple turned them into something more normal on Lion and then further on Mavericks.

While, in general, I like the idea of further flattening done on Yosemite and Big Sur, most of UI elements ended up being changed into something tasteless and poorly designed (along with a few improvements).When it comes to the UI, it looks like Apple is just unable to do something normal, they must add some annoying weirdness everywhere.

 

[mac57mac57]

I agree, @zevrix, it is all a matter of taste.

The beautiful, lickable, 3D GUI elements that Mac OS X featured from its inception through 10.4 Tiger, peaked in "beauty" with Tiger before starting to go downhill with the release of Leopard.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this paralleled the Windows world, where Windows XP, which was a contemporary of Mac OS X up to and including Tiger, featured equally "beautiful" GUI elements - big, bold colors, lifelike and 3D.

Windows started it's long decline into boring flat GUI elements with it's next release, Vista, as did Mac OS X, with it's next release, Leopard.

It IS all a matter of taste, but to my taste, what we now call macOS reached visual perfection with Tiger, just as Windows did with XP. It has been downhill ever since, from a GUI presentation perspective, for both camps.

I would LOVE to be able to take my Sorbet Leopard and reskin it to LOOK like Tiger, but alas, this is not possible.

 

[Sciuriware]

I agree, @zevrix, it is all a matter of taste.

The beautiful, lickable, 3D GUI elements that Mac OS X featured from its inception through 10.4 Tiger, peaked in "beauty" with Tiger before starting to go downhill with the release of Leopard.

Perhaps not surprisingly, this paralleled the Windows world, where Windows XP, which was a contemporary of Mac OS X up to and including Tiger, featured equally "beautiful" GUI elements - big, bold colors, lifelike and 3D.

Windows started it's long decline into boring flat GUI elements with it's next release, Vista, as did Mac OS X, with it's next release, Leopard.

It IS all a matter of taste, but to my taste, what we now call macOS reached visual perfection with Tiger, just as Windows did with XP. It has been downhill ever since, from a GUI presentation perspective, for both camps.

I would LOVE to be able to take my Sorbet Leopard and reskin it to LOOK like Tiger, but alas, this is not possible.

A solution might be (mine) to create some app's of your own and decorate them with unbelievable icons and bars.
;JOOP!

 

[mac57mac57]

Good idea @Sciuriware, but I was thinking of a more system-wide solution!

 

[Sciuriware]

Good idea @Sciuriware, but I was thinking of a more system-wide solution!

I wish I was that good!
;JOOP!

 

[p33t3r]

This looks very dodgy, proceed at your own risk, but it does show others would also like it changed!

GitHub - lihaoyun6/Logoer: Change the style of the Apple logo in macOS menu bar / 更换macOS菜单栏苹果Logo样式的小工具

Change the style of the Apple logo in macOS menu bar / 更换macOS菜单栏苹果Logo样式的小工具 - lihaoyun6/Logoer

github.com

Things aren't automatically very dodgy just because they have text in another language than English.
The project's on Github and the code is freely available to check for any dodginess.