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cosmotic 16 hours ago

How can you read the icons if they mean different things in different apps?

LeoPanthera 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you provide some examples of this? In my experience, they're quite consistent.

Crestwave 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

neom 13 hours ago | parent [-]

A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

arm 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

New Smart Folder with a cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Notes.app, while New Smart Folder with a folder+cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Finder.app.

neom 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!

garbagewoman 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it

OJFord 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/ (second section on consistency)

thenthenthen 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The later examples are pretty wild, 3 different ‘minimize’ icons? Why? Different teams?

inatreecrown2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This guy is doing free design work/critique for Apple