 📝 With the Big Sur-ification of macOS icons, many apps lost an opportunity to explore what their icon could’ve been. Instead they took their logo & plopped it on a white background. I put together a small collection of visually interesting alternatives. https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/big-sur-ification-of-macos-icons/ 21 comments
 @thomasfuchs @qlp and to top it all off, trying to make it better yourself (customization/skinning) is harder than ever  @jimniels @thomasfuchs I'm glad that the versions of Handbrake, VLC, Audacity and Kdenlive use icons that aren't blah @jimniels @thomasfuchs In contrast, these are the icons for the installed apps on my Fedora 40 laptop. @qlp @jimniels @thomasfuchs Just personal taste, but to me, Handbrake and Audacity are two of the ugliest icons I’ve ever seen. Both apps have, in my opinion, also horrendous UX. A pity , as both are practical apps. If you want a trio, add Gimp to the pack. @dmian @jimniels @thomasfuchs I'm not a fan of either app icons or UX either, but my experience with audio editing has been with Audacity (because, for a long time, I couldn't afford something like Audition). I'm just glad that at least they aren't bland logos with a white, black or solid color squircle as a background. They stand out, which is both good and bad.  The Big Sur transition made app identification surprisingly difficult for me, with so many icons becoming "stylistically similar logos identically placed and identically sized on identical white squircles." @ehurtley ha yeah, there were some interesting variations from different eras — even a version of that mid-2000s era aqua-style suite   Wow. I don't follow apple stuff much... but that is the laziest shit I've ever seen.
I do like your alternatives. |
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@jimniels Absolutely love these!