Common Glyph

Your own images in the menu bar.

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Free forever · Open source · Nothing leaves your Mac · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel

Anything you like.

An image, an animated GIF, an emoji, or a piece of text. Add as many as you want, each its own menu bar item.

Made to fit.

Crop, rotate, and flip. Vision lifts the subject out of a photo, and Silhouette or Ink tints it like the system’s own icons.

A menu for each.

Edit the glyph, choose or paste a new image, add another, or hide it. New glyphs start beside the clock, so a menu bar manager doesn’t hide them.

Get started.

  1. Download CommonGlyph.zip, unzip it, and move Common Glyph to Applications.
  2. Open it The first time, macOS says it can't verify the developer: the build is signed but not notarized. Open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to Common Glyph.
  3. Set it up Choose or paste an image in Settings, pick a style, and it appears beside the clock.

Or, from a terminal, with no Open Anyway step: curl -fsSL https://oddurs.github.io/common-tools/install.sh | sh -s -- glyph. Every step, with checksums, is in the install guide.

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