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Version 8 · 2026-07-18 · Production — the exploration concludes

Three finalists, shipping-ready.

Eight rounds, 61 generated candidates, two competitive-field checks, one real-phone test — down to three icons that each earn their place. All three are now production assets: color-locked masters at exactly #FF6A00 / #FFFFFF, Icon Composer layers with verified transparency, and full iOS size sets. Ship one as primary; the other two can ride along as user-selectable alternate icons, or fight it out in an App Store PPO test.

The three

Pick a primary — the assets exist either way

H8e final: fox-tail question mark ending in a magnifier H8e — THE MARK

The question, answered

The fox-tail ? whose dot is a tiny magnifier. Owns a category of one on any Home Screen. The brand you keep for a decade.

B3a final: solid disc magnifier with house knockout B3a — THE CLARITY

Find things in your home

The best grandparent-test performer — the product story lands in three seconds, no wit required. Strongest App Store first impression.

F5f final: fox peeking from a drawer F5f — THE CHARACTER

The fox in the drawer

The one people smile at. The strongest foundation if NoonFox's brand ever becomes a character in the app itself.

Verified

Masters and layers, checked

Every master's field verifies at exactly #FF6A00; the foreground layers carry true alpha (the knockouts — B3a's house, F5f's eyes, H8e's lens — punch through), which is what Icon Composer needs for the Liquid Glass / dark / tinted variants.

The three production masters and their transparent foreground layers on a checkerboard.

What happens next

The last mile (the one Mac step)

  1. Icon Composer (~10 min per icon): background = solid FF6A00, foreground = fg-white.png, tinted mode = fg-mono.png. Full checklist sits inside each production folder.
  2. Ship the primary — drag the exported .icon into Xcode, set the App Icon name in Target ▸ General.
  3. Optional — alternate icons: add the other two as user-selectable icons in NoonFox settings (CFBundleAlternateIcons).
  4. Optional — let the data decide: App Store Connect ▸ Product Page Optimization can split-test the three 1024 masters on real install rates.
LLMOutputs/2026/2026-07-17 - NoonFox App Icon Design Guide/production/{H8e,B3a,F5f}-final/
  master-1024.png · fg-white.png · fg-mono.png · sizes/ (12 sizes) · ICON_COMPOSER_CHECKLIST.md

Exploration total: 8 rounds · 61 candidates · ≈ $5.10 of the $10 budget · one day.