Window Sweaters Files

Supported: macOS 13 Ventura or later, on Apple Silicon or Intel. Universal binary.

Choose which apps wear sweaters

A new Apps menu under the yarn icon lists your open apps. Untick one to leave it bare, and tick it to bring its sweater back. Only that app changes, and your choices stick after a restart. Turn Off for All Apps starts everything bare, including apps you open later, so you can tick just a few. Thanks to @keithrosseau for the idea (#8).

Every app gets a sweater in its own colours

Apps without a hand-knitted sweater now take their colours from their own icon, instead of a colour picked from their name. The 37 hand-designed sweaters are unchanged.

A new Zigzag

Pattern → Zigzag now knits every app in its icon's colour, with a cream zigzag instead of the old pale pink. On pale apps the zigzag is a deeper shade of the app's colour, so it always shows. Colours you set in apps.conf still win, and your own zigzag.png is shown exactly as you drew it.

Also

• A new Narrow · 8 pt border width.
• Black-and-white app icons, like ChatGPT's, no longer come out navy.

Install

:::sh
brew trust saragordic/tap
brew install --cask saragordic/tap/window-sweaters

Already installed with Homebrew? Run brew upgrade --cask window-sweaters.

Or download WindowSweaters-1.5.0.zip below, unzip, and move Window Sweaters.app to your Applications folder. macOS blocks the first launch of an app that is not notarized: open System Settings → Privacy & Security, find the blocked-app message, and click Open Anyway.

Built on JankyBorders by Felix Kratz, under GPL-3.0.