While developing an iOS / MacOS app in Swift recently, we had the requirement for a few symbols beyond what is available in SF Symbols. After trying unsuccessfully to create our own, we came across a fantastic Mac app Create Custom Symbols. This app very easily takes an svg created in your favourite drawing tool (shout out to Affinity Designer 2) and creates a custom symbol file compatible with Xcode. I noticed that the web page for Create Custom Symbols notes that it has no support for multicolor symbols, but it turns out that it isn’t necessary for multicolor support [Read on…]