After upgrading to mojave some of my custom folder icons are blurry/pixelated

I use album cover icons for my music collection, and after installing mojave when I make a new folder and add a custom icon it is frequently blurry. It's happening about 50% of the time, and never happened before mojave.

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 3, 2018 11:34 AM

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Oct 3, 2018 12:25 PM in response to troysz

Different macOS deal with these custom icons differently.

Stick with square icons.

For example test with 450 x 450 px or default 1024 x 1024px

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