Comment by 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.
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.
They're definitely awful compared to the icons they're replacing. Losing so much identity and detail.
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.
> There were similar negative reactions back ~15 years ago when Adobe switched to their minimalist icon style.
Adobe icons are terrible and should not be the standard. Photoshop 7, Illustrator 10, InDesign 2 were so much more memorable and recognizable than the lazy minimalist slop we have now. Even the first CS or CS2 icons were a thousand times better. The fact that the company behind the most powerful and popular creative software did this is unforgivable.
Some tasteless manager made a PowerPoint about "brand cohesion", got his promotion and ruined it for everybody else.