diff --git a/cmake/modules/ImageHelper.cmake b/cmake/modules/ImageHelper.cmake
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/modules/ImageHelper.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+# Facilities for image transformations
+include(DoOrFail)
+
+macro(convert_svg_to_png SVG PNG DPI)
+	find_program_or_fail(RSVG_CONVERT_EXECUTABLE rsvg-convert)
+
+	add_custom_command(
+		OUTPUT
+			"${PNG}"
+		COMMAND
+			"${RSVG_CONVERT_EXECUTABLE}"
+			-f png
+			-d "${DPI}"
+			-p "${DPI}"
+			"${SVG}"
+			-o "${PNG}"
+		MAIN_DEPENDENCY
+			"${SVG}"
+	)
+endmacro()
+
+macro(_convert_png_to_tiff_linux PNG TIFF)
+	# find_package(ImageMagick) does not search in the default bin
+	# directories and fails. This is a known bug from FindImageMagick:
+	# https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16179
+	# When the issue is solved the following can be uncommented:
+	# find_package(ImageMagick COMPONENTS convert REQUIRED CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_BOTH)
+	#
+	# For now, use find_program as a workaround.
+	find_program_or_fail(ImageMagick_convert_EXECUTABLE convert)
+
+	add_custom_command(
+		OUTPUT
+			"${TIFF}"
+		COMMAND
+			"${ImageMagick_convert_EXECUTABLE}"
+			"${PNG}"
+			"${TIFF}"
+		MAIN_DEPENDENCY
+			"${PNG}"
+	)
+endmacro()
+
+macro(convert_png_to_tiff PNG TIFF)
+	if(NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING AND ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
+		message(FATAL_ERROR "The PNG to TIFF conversion is only supported on Linux.")
+	else()
+		_convert_png_to_tiff_linux("${PNG}" "${TIFF}")
+	endif()
+endmacro()
+
+macro(_cat_multi_resolution_tiff_linux OUTPUT)
+	find_program_or_fail(TIFFCP_EXECUTABLE tiffcp)
+
+	add_custom_command(
+		OUTPUT
+			"${OUTPUT}"
+		COMMAND
+			"${TIFFCP_EXECUTABLE}"
+			-c none
+			${ARGN}
+			"${OUTPUT}"
+		DEPENDS
+			${ARGN}
+	)
+endmacro()
+
+macro(cat_multi_resolution_tiff OUTPUT)
+	if(NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING AND ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
+		message(FATAL_ERROR "The PNG to TIFF concatenation is only supported on Linux.")
+	else()
+		_cat_multi_resolution_tiff_linux("${OUTPUT}" ${ARGN})
+	endif()
+endmacro()
diff --git a/contrib/macdeploy/background.svg.cmake.in b/contrib/macdeploy/background.svg.cmake.in
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/macdeploy/background.svg.cmake.in
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
+<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20010904//EN"
+ "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd">
+<svg version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1000pt" height="640pt" viewBox="0 0 1000 640" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet">
+	<!-- kate: space-indent off;
+	Copyright (c) 2015 The Bitcoin Core developers
+	Copyright (c) 2019 The Bitcoin developers
+	Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+	file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+	-->
+	<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
+		text {
+			font-family: "Tuffy";
+			font-size: 86px;
+			fill: gray;
+			text-anchor: middle;
+		}
+	]]></style>
+	<defs>
+		<linearGradient id="gradient" x1="0%" y1="0%" x2="100%" y2="100%">
+			<stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:rgb(239,239,239);stop-opacity:1" />
+			<stop offset="33%" style="stop-color:rgb(239,239,239);stop-opacity:1" />
+			<stop offset="80%" style="stop-color:rgb(205,205,205);stop-opacity:1" />
+			<stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:rgb(204,204,204);stop-opacity:1" />
+		</linearGradient>
+	</defs>
+	<rect width="1000" height="640" style="fill:url(#gradient);stroke-width:0" />
+	<g transform="translate(500,0) scale(0.9, 1)">
+		<text x="0" y="114">${PACKAGE_NAME}</text>
+	</g>
+	<g transform="translate(0.000000,640.000000) scale(0.100000,-0.100000)"
+	fill="#000000" stroke="none">
+		<path d="M4995 3705 c-24 -23 -25 -29 -25 -165 l0 -140 -306 0 -306 0 -29 -29 c-29 -29 -29 -31 -29 -141 0 -110 0 -112 29 -141 l29 -29 306 0 306 0 0 -140 c0 -136 1 -142 25 -165 16 -17 35 -25 57 -25 29 0 72 32 306 226 180 149 274 233 278 250 13 53 -2 70 -278 299 -235 194 -277 225 -306 225 -22 0 -41 -8 -57 -25z" fixlter="url(#glow)"/>
+	</g>
+</svg>
diff --git a/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt b/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/qt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -415,10 +415,50 @@
 			BitcoinABC-Qt
 	)
 
-	add_custom_target(osx-deploydir
+	# Building the DMG background image requires several steps:
+	#   1/ The SVG file must be edited to display the package name
+	#   2/ The SVG file should be transformed into a couple PNG files, on for
+	#      low resolution screens and one for high resolution screens.
+	#   3/ The PNG files must be transformed into a multi-resolution TIFF file.
+	#      The names are not set arbitrarily, they follow Apple's guidelines for
+	#      resolution independent bitmap images (see `man tiffutil`).
+	set(BACKGROUND_SVG "background.svg")
+	configure_file(
+		"${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/contrib/macdeploy/background.svg.cmake.in"
+		"${BACKGROUND_SVG}"
+	)
+
+	include(ImageHelper)
+	set(BACKGROUND_PNG_LOWRES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/background_temp.png")
+	set(BACKGROUND_PNG_HIRES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/background_temp@2x.png")
+	set(BACKGROUND_TIFF_LOWRES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/background_temp.tiff")
+	set(BACKGROUND_TIFF_HIRES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/background_temp@2x.tiff")
+	set(BACKGROUND_TIFF_NAME "background.tiff")
+	set(BACKGROUND_TIFF_MULTIRES "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${BACKGROUND_TIFF_NAME}")
+	convert_svg_to_png("${BACKGROUND_SVG}" "${BACKGROUND_PNG_LOWRES}" 36)
+	convert_svg_to_png("${BACKGROUND_SVG}" "${BACKGROUND_PNG_HIRES}" 72)
+	convert_png_to_tiff("${BACKGROUND_PNG_LOWRES}" "${BACKGROUND_TIFF_LOWRES}")
+	convert_png_to_tiff("${BACKGROUND_PNG_HIRES}" "${BACKGROUND_TIFF_HIRES}")
+	cat_multi_resolution_tiff("${BACKGROUND_TIFF_MULTIRES}" "${BACKGROUND_TIFF_LOWRES}" "${BACKGROUND_TIFF_HIRES}")
+
+	set(BACKGROUND_DIST_DIR "${DMG_DIST}/.background")
+	set(BACKGROUND_DIST_TIFF "${BACKGROUND_DIST_DIR}/${BACKGROUND_TIFF_NAME}")
+	add_custom_command(
+		OUTPUT
+			"${BACKGROUND_DIST_TIFF}"
+		COMMAND
+			${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${BACKGROUND_DIST_DIR}"
+		COMMAND
+			${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy "${BACKGROUND_TIFF_MULTIRES}" "${BACKGROUND_DIST_TIFF}"
 		DEPENDS
+			"${BACKGROUND_TIFF_MULTIRES}"
 			"${DMG_DIST}"
 	)
+
+	add_custom_target(osx-deploydir
+		DEPENDS
+			"${BACKGROUND_DIST_TIFF}"
+	)
 endif()
 
 # Test tests