
With the menubar black and the graphite UI elements enabled, everything in the user interface gets a nice modern silver and greyscale appearance.

Hide the Desktop Icons: To push the minimalist aspect, either disable the desktop icons through a Terminal command or with a menubar tool like DesktopUtility.Greyscale Wallpaper: Pick a minimalist greyscale wallpaper, the screenshot uses “Light” from DizzyUP that we’ve covered before, but Subtle Patterns is a great collection too.Under “Highlight color” pick Silver or a variation of grey. Graphite Buttons & UI Elements: Open System Preferences and click on “General”, then look for “Appearance” and set Graphite to change the window action buttons to silver.Black Menu Bar: Get a dark OS X menu bar with the free MenuBarFilter tool.
#Classic mac os theme how to#
We’ve shown you how to do this before with a retro-inspired Classic Mac OS appearance and making OS X look like iOS, and now we’ll show you how to bring a nice looking modern minimalist greyscale appearance to OS X: Mac OS X doesn’t really have “themes” in the traditional sense, but you can create themes of sorts yourself by applying a few system tweaks.


This is a wonderful look and feel idea i’ve implemented myself which i found on OSXDaily Theme Mac OS X with an Ultra-Minimalist & Clean Silver Appearance
