Re:The Icon Journey
by _xhok on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @04:46PM
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Am I the only one who finds the VSCode icon generally ugly as sin? This is most striking on OS X, where it sits in a tray alongside a bunch of other meticulously designed icons.
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Re:The Icon Journey
by cyberferret on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:15PM
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I agree - the 'tilt' does make it look like the odd stray dog in the pack, but then again, maybe that was the intent of the MS designers in the first place? ;)
I must admit being a little thrown when I upgraded VS Code a week ago and suddenly noticed the very different icon. I immediately thought "Ugh, I like the old icon better". But by the end of the day, I was actually struggling to remember that the old icon actually looked like. I was thinking "I know it was dark blue, but what WAS it actually again???"
Just goes to show that at least in THIS old programmers mind, I rely on colour matching far more than shapes to navigate to important apps that I use...