So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something.
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So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something. But no. Surely it couldn't be.
But it is. The Keynote icon went from a six-part pie chart to a two-part pie chart, and they managed to off-center the chart's centerline in the process. 🙃
It's a good thing quality design and attention to detail aren't Apple's entire brand, or this might be kind of embarrassing.
@jwisser I do not want to defend this style, however—
The artwork is probably not “off-center,” but the specular highlight on Liquid Glass layers is inset. The inset begins from the edge of each shape (where the highlight stops on the bigger portion of the pie chart). The *highlight* does not start at that edge.
If this were a traditionally rendered icon, a designer might have done it differently.
The result looks off-center, but the shapes are likely not. Higher resolution examples:
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While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?
The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.
The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.
The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.
@jwisser Simulacra and Simulation
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@jwisser I do not want to defend this style, however—
The artwork is probably not “off-center,” but the specular highlight on Liquid Glass layers is inset. The inset begins from the edge of each shape (where the highlight stops on the bigger portion of the pie chart). The *highlight* does not start at that edge.
If this were a traditionally rendered icon, a designer might have done it differently.
The result looks off-center, but the shapes are likely not. Higher resolution examples:
@jwisser Of course, the designers at Apple could have drawn this (and any icon) however they wanted to, but the fault here (in my opinion) is the tools and the design direction for app icons.
The tool boxes you into a corner if you “have” to use it to get the style they defined for app icons. If you’re willing to ignore that dynamic lighting, you can have a lot more flexibility. To be sure, they did this to themselves, but I almost can’t blame a designer who has to live with these restrictions.
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While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?
The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.
The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.
The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.
@jwisser a while back I got to see the physical object that earlier icon was based on!
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While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?
The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.
The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.
The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.
@jwisser Or possibly a table lamp featuring a decorative pie chart?
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@jwisser a while back I got to see the physical object that earlier icon was based on!
@jvb Oh whoa! That's really neat. Thank you! :D
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@jwisser Or possibly a table lamp featuring a decorative pie chart?
I see a table lamp with a clock/timer circuit built in.
Could be used to launch the iLamp app and set the on/off times, if someone feels adventurous to add some smarts to the iLamp (see https://jakeharms.com/imac-lamp).
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While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?
The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.
The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.
The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.
@jwisser Isn’t it a snake sneaking up to steal a piece of (Apple-)pie from a Tupperware?
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So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something. But no. Surely it couldn't be.
But it is. The Keynote icon went from a six-part pie chart to a two-part pie chart, and they managed to off-center the chart's centerline in the process. 🙃
It's a good thing quality design and attention to detail aren't Apple's entire brand, or this might be kind of embarrassing.
#resist !
My #NeoFinder application will never have such an ugly and boring squircle blob as the icon, on the contrary. Promise!
And it will keep its nice launch animation in the dock as well.
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So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something. But no. Surely it couldn't be.
But it is. The Keynote icon went from a six-part pie chart to a two-part pie chart, and they managed to off-center the chart's centerline in the process. 🙃
It's a good thing quality design and attention to detail aren't Apple's entire brand, or this might be kind of embarrassing.
@jwisser It's even worse: the old one has a sheet of paper on the lectern and the graph is on the sheet of paper, the new one has the graph directly on the lectern.
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