Comment by ksec

2 days ago

This is Off Topic, but the first thing I notice on that page were those icons for apps with Apple Creator Studio.

They look AWEFUL.

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concinds  2 days ago

It's a massacre. The originals[0] were metaphorical and easy to grasp. These new ones are meaningless, for most of them you can't guess what the app does from the icon. The beautiful 3-axis colorwheel gimbal, gone. The concert access badge, gone. The pressed record award replaced with a disc? Is that the MP3 player app?

And Final Cut Pro looks like Windows 11's garbage free ClipChamp! None of them have the gravitas of the old ones.

It's weird because uniformity and minimalism haven't been "in" in years, outside the Silicon Valley bubble. They're very culturally out of touch.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1qbz6g8/whos_excited...

  • ksec  1 day ago

    Oh Thank You for the link. Exactly what I am talking about. You dont have to like or agree with every icons beings used previously, but at least they serve its purpose which is easily recognisable.

    I saw the new icon and it nearly made me puke. Had it been coming from Google or Microsoft I would have thought oh not surprised.

MattRix  2 days ago

I don’t think they look awful, and they’re more interesting and opinionated than most boring icons you see these days.

  • simjnd  2 days ago

    They're definitely awful compared to the icons they're replacing. Losing so much identity and detail.

    • MattRix  21 hours ago

      Eh not sure I agree. The former icons are definitely unique, but not consistent or cohesive at all, especially when viewed as a group.

      I think these new icons will grow on people. There were similar negative reactions back ~15 years ago when Adobe switched to their minimalist icon style.

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