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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I use an icon pack on Android to revert them to their previous icon, the new ones are indeed terrible..

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just stopped using most of them

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

The absolute worst is the idiotic "let's make all app icons the same shape" thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't love the difficulty of extremely fast individual identification but there is something to be said for the ease of extremely fast collective identification, it makes it very easy to see which group of apps each app belongs to, which is also valuable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Except this is not "browsers" group or "email clients" group, this is "vertical monopoly" group.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Custom icon packs for the win!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like the new version of the last two, but old for the rest

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I feel like it's easier to use the monochrome mode of the phone than these icons

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I think the maps actually looks more distinctive because of the shape. The rest are worse to differentiate though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Its one of those things u never think about as a person without disabilities, cuz i can tell the difference just fine, i guess they should have consulted someone with a vision impairment when considering stuff like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

On top of that in Play store lots of times when I search for certain app it gives me like 10 more alternatives that all have slightly different logo but all use that same yellow-green-blue-red color palette that google has, so with all these copycats it's even harder to figure out whether app is from google or not

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Color is the first thing the eyes tend to notice, then shape, then lines and details. The new icons all look the same at the edge of my vision, I have to look at them straight on to distinguish them. Individually each one is fine but together, like what the hell?

I don't rawdog Google icons anymore anyway, I use an icon pack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah this is the worst! You know a few designers raised this exact problem during review, too, and were shut down

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i see the new icons wanna intergrate googles colors ngl

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