Round Icon

Make a Round Icon

Mask an icon into a circle with transparent corners — for the avatar slots, chips and launcher shapes that demand one.

Describe the edit — the AI assistant does it on the canvas.

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When an icon has to be circular

01

Cut from a centred square

The circle is taken from the largest centred square in the file, so a non-square icon loses its long sides. That is usually right for a glyph, which sits in the middle anyway — but check anything with text or an offset element.

02

Round is a platform convention

Some launchers and chat interfaces mask everything into a circle whether you supply one or not. Cutting the circle yourself means you control what gets removed rather than discovering it after the fact.

03

Trim first, or the glyph shrinks

An icon with generous built-in padding produces a circle that is mostly empty with a small glyph in the middle. Trim the icon to its own bounds first, then round it, and the glyph fills the circle properly.

04

Transparent outside the circle

The corners are removed rather than filled, so the round icon drops onto any background without a box behind it.

05

Not the same as a squircle

App store icons on several platforms are squircles — a rounded square, not a circle. If you are preparing a store submission, check which shape the spec asks for before masking anything.

Circle, squircle or square?

Circle

Fully round

  • Corners removed entirely
  • Common in avatars and chips
  • Crops a non-square icon
  • Transparent surround
Best for

Avatar slots and circular UI badges

Not ideal for

App store submissions on most platforms

Square

Centred crop

  • Keeps all four corners
  • Equal sides
  • No shape masking
  • Fills the slot completely
Best for

Grids, tiles and store icons that want a full bleed

Not ideal for

A UI that will round it anyway

How to make a round icon

1

Upload the icon

Trim it to its glyph first if it carries a lot of padding.

2

Take the circle

The mask applies immediately with transparent corners.

3

Download

Free preview, or the full-resolution PNG in the app.

Where round icons are used

Avatar slots

Supply an icon for a UI that renders everything as a circle.

Launcher shapes

Control the crop yourself instead of letting the OS choose.

Chips and pills

Fit a glyph into a small circular badge.

Category markers

Build a consistent round icon set for navigation.

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What people use it for

The jobs the editor was built around — and what it does differently on each one.

Colourways you can revisit

Every edit is a layer, not a bake. When the brand shifts, reopen the file and change the colour rather than rebuilding the variant from the original.

Cutouts with awkward edges

AI background removal that keeps hair, foliage and soft shadows instead of stamping a hard outline around them. The output is a transparent PNG, ready to place.

No export, edit, re-import loop

The Framer plugin runs on the canvas you are already working in, so a recolour or a cutout does not mean a round trip through a second application.

Ten options in the time one used to take

Recolour once and step through the alternatives, so a client review can look at the whole range instead of the one version there was time to make.

Brand colours matched exactly

Pick a colour straight off an existing asset and get the hex, rather than eyeballing it against a screenshot and hoping it is close enough.

Free to preview, priced per export

Previewing is unlimited and costs nothing. A credit is spent only when you download a full-resolution file, so exploring an idea is never the expensive part.

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