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macintosh OS 9 Theme for OS X 10.11

Platinum

A Macintosh OS 9 Theme for macOS

Install

  • make a backup of /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/{Dark}Graphite.car
  • move the GraphiteAppearance.car file to /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemAppearance.bundle/Contents/Resources/
  • change System Preferences => General => Accent color => Multicolor to Graphite

You will need to disable macOS System Integrity Protection (rootless mode)

  • boot into recovery mode (restart and hold Command+R)
  • open Terminal.app (Utilities => Terminal in the Menu Bar)
  • 'csrutil disable'
  • reboot

Screenshots

About This Mac

about

Browser

browser

Terminal.app

term

System Preferences

prefs

r_close_dis_inac

r_close_dis

r_close_press

r_full_press

r_full

r_fullmin_standard

r_fullmin

r_max_press

r_min_max_dis

r_min_press

r_save

r_save_press

s_close_min_dis

s_close_press

s_max_press

s_min_max_dis_inac

s_min_max_dis

s_standard

Tools

https://blog.timac.org/2018/1018-reverse-engineering-the-car-file-format/

https://blog.timac.org/2018/1112-quicklook-plugin-to-visualize-car-files/

https://github.com/0xced/iOS-Artwork-Extractor

https://github.com/alexzielenski/ThemeEngine

https://github.com/bartoszj/acextract

https://github.com/insidegui/AssetCatalogTinkerer

https://github.com/jslegendre/ThemeEngine

https://github.com/Marxon13/iOS-Asset-Extractor

https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/cartool

https://pragmaticcode.com/crunch/