So these are the icons that the best (and worst) designers will be seeing in their docks in 2007. I must say, there are certainly going to stand out from all those nice picture icons.
Actually, I really did dislike them the first time I saw the rather ’standard’ blue photoshop icon but now they are starting to grow on me.
Apparently, they are designed by the same team at macromedia who made the set of typographic icons for the studio mx. Coupled with the typographic styling of the guy behind adobe garamond.
I get the impression that these may eventually evolve into permanent icons for each application, a little tweak of the letters here, some different shading there. Not such a bad thing, as the adobe icons have been different for each CS generation (once they moved away from the classic eye) and a little consistency is good now and then.
It seems most of the graphical pundits aren’t too enamored with the new design direction, a few can see the sense behind the decision.
Either way, they have generated plenty of extreme reactions from commenters, which certainly creates passionate users.
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