diff --git a/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/IconLoader.java b/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/IconLoader.java
index f05bd6bfb9f8..819d3b1be7c4 100644
--- a/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/IconLoader.java
+++ b/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/openapi/util/IconLoader.java
@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ import com.intellij.ui.scale.ScaleContextSupport;
 import com.intellij.util.*;
 import com.intellij.util.containers.ContainerUtil;
 import com.intellij.util.containers.FixedHashMap;
-import com.intellij.util.ui.ImageUtil;
-import com.intellij.util.ui.JBImageIcon;
-import com.intellij.util.ui.StartupUiUtil;
-import com.intellij.util.ui.UIUtil;
+import com.intellij.util.ui.*;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.*;
 
 import javax.swing.*;
@@ -652,7 +649,12 @@ public final class IconLoader {
 
     @Override
     public Icon getMenuBarIcon(boolean isDark) {
-      Image img = loadFromUrl(ScaleContext.createIdentity(), isDark);
+      boolean useMRI = MultiResolutionImageProvider.isMultiResolutionImageAvailable() && SystemInfo.isMac;
+      ScaleContext ctx = useMRI ? ScaleContext.create() : ScaleContext.createIdentity();
+      Image img = loadFromUrl(ctx, isDark);
+      if (useMRI) {
+        img = MultiResolutionImageProvider.convertFromJBImage(img);
+      }
       if (img != null) {
         return new ImageIcon(img);
       }
diff --git a/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/util/ui/MultiResolutionImageProvider.java b/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/util/ui/MultiResolutionImageProvider.java
index 4f77f0d24e5f..52be1592389e 100644
--- a/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/util/ui/MultiResolutionImageProvider.java
+++ b/platform/util/ui/src/com/intellij/util/ui/MultiResolutionImageProvider.java
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import com.intellij.util.JBHiDPIScaledImage;
 import com.intellij.util.MethodInvocator;
 import org.imgscalr.Scalr;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.ApiStatus;
-import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
+import org.jetbrains.annotations.Contract;
 import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;
 
 import java.awt.*;
@@ -154,7 +154,9 @@ public class MultiResolutionImageProvider {
    * default to the provided image's single resolution variant.
    */
   @Nullable
-  public static Image convertFromJBImage(Image jbImage) {
+  public static Image convertFromJBImage(@Nullable Image jbImage) {
+    if (jbImage == null) return null;
+
     if (!checkSize(jbImage)) {
       //noinspection CallToPrintStackTrace
       new IllegalArgumentException("the image has illegal size 0x0").printStackTrace();
@@ -166,8 +168,10 @@ public class MultiResolutionImageProvider {
    * Returns an accessor to the provided {@code MultiResolutionImage}.
    * If the provided image is not {@code MultiResolutionImage} the resolution variants methods will default to the provided image.
    */
-  @NotNull
-  public static Accessor getAccessor(@NotNull Image mrImage) {
+  @Contract("null -> null; !null -> !null")
+  public static Accessor getAccessor(@Nullable Image mrImage) {
+    if (mrImage == null) return null;
+
     if (!checkSize(mrImage)) {
       //noinspection CallToPrintStackTrace
       new IllegalArgumentException("the image has illegal size 0x0").printStackTrace();