diff --git a/MenubarCountdown/AppDelegate.swift b/MenubarCountdown/AppDelegate.swift
index 1825cb2..423688c 100644
--- a/MenubarCountdown/AppDelegate.swift
+++ b/MenubarCountdown/AppDelegate.swift
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDele
         else {
             timeString = NSString(format: "%02d:%02d", hours, minutes) as String
         }
+        statusItem.button?.image = nil
         statusItem.button?.title = timeString
     }
 
@@ -186,7 +187,14 @@ class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDele
      Change the status item to an hourglass icon
      */
     func showStatusItemIcon() {
-        statusItem.button?.title = "⌛️"
+        statusItem.button?.title = ""
+        if let image = NSImage(named: "HourglassIcon") {
+            image.isTemplate = true
+            statusItem.button?.image = image
+        }
+        else {
+            Log.error("unable to load HourglassIcon")
+        }
     }
 
     func startBlinking() {
diff --git a/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/Contents.json b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/Contents.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da4a164
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/Contents.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "info" : {
+    "version" : 1,
+    "author" : "xcode"
+  }
+}
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diff --git a/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/Contents.json b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/Contents.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..00fd51c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/Contents.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+  "images" : [
+    {
+      "idiom" : "universal",
+      "filename" : "HourglassIconBlack.png",
+      "scale" : "1x"
+    },
+    {
+      "idiom" : "universal",
+      "scale" : "2x"
+    },
+    {
+      "idiom" : "universal",
+      "scale" : "3x"
+    }
+  ],
+  "info" : {
+    "version" : 1,
+    "author" : "xcode"
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/HourglassIconBlack.png b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/HourglassIconBlack.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c532cd
Binary files /dev/null and b/MenubarCountdown/Assets.xcassets/HourglassIcon.imageset/HourglassIconBlack.png differ