diff --git a/client/ui/assets/netbird-menu-about-18.png b/client/ui/assets/netbird-menu-about-18.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb12c6367
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diff --git a/client/ui/icons_menu_darwin.go b/client/ui/icons_menu_darwin.go
index 29fe2d894..6b943d2bf 100644
--- a/client/ui/icons_menu_darwin.go
+++ b/client/ui/icons_menu_darwin.go
@@ -10,16 +10,15 @@ import _ "embed"
 // (Win32 SM_CXMENUCHECK slot) and Linux a 24x24 variant (GTK menu row
 // supports the larger range) — see the sibling icons_menu_*.go files.
 //
-// iconMenuNetbird is intentionally empty on macOS. NSMenuItem.setImage
-// stretches the row height to the leading image's pixel size, which
-// makes the About row taller than the unadorned rows above and below
-// it regardless of the PNG size we ship. The brand mark is rendered
-// only on Windows and Linux (see those platforms' icons_menu_*.go
-// files); on macOS the About row stays text-only — the tray icon
-// itself already supplies the brand presence.
-//
-// Status dots are downscaled from the 24x24 originals with ImageMagick.
+// iconMenuNetbird on macOS is an 18x18 downscale of the 256x256 brand
+// PNG (assets/netbird.png — the same file the legacy Fyne client used
+// for its About row). Sized to sit visually alongside the row text —
+// the full 256x256 source stretched the row vertically, 22x22 read
+// noticeably larger than the surrounding "A" of "About", and 14x14
+// shrank below the cap height. 18 keeps the brand mark legible without
+// dominating the row.
 
+//go:embed assets/netbird-menu-about-18.png
 var iconMenuNetbird []byte
 
 //go:embed assets/netbird-menu-dot-connected-22.png
diff --git a/client/ui/tray.go b/client/ui/tray.go
index 49f16c063..f2d411c39 100644
--- a/client/ui/tray.go
+++ b/client/ui/tray.go
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ func (t *Tray) buildMenu() *application.Menu {
 
 	aboutLabel := t.loc.T("tray.menu.about")
 	about := menu.AddSubmenu(aboutLabel)
-	// iconMenuNetbird is empty on macOS — NSMenuItem.setImage stretches
-	// the row to the leading image's pixel size, and the result looks
-	// out of place next to the unadorned rows above and below. Skip the
-	// brand mark there and keep the row text-only.
+	// iconMenuNetbird is the brand mark painted in the leading-image slot
+	// of the About row. The icons_menu_<os>.go files own the per-platform
+	// asset choice — guard with len() so a platform that opts out (sets
+	// it to an empty []byte) still renders the row text-only.
 	if aboutItem := menu.FindByLabel(aboutLabel); aboutItem != nil && len(iconMenuNetbird) > 0 {
 		aboutItem.SetBitmap(iconMenuNetbird)
 	}