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New Adobe Icons
Here’s something interesting: Adobe have revealed the new icons for their products. This colour wheel, published by Adobe’s John Nack shows them. The ones with the two letter acronyms are icons too. So there’s something like Dw for Dreamweaver, Fw for Fireworks etc.
Not too long ago, some people were complaining how icons were always round. Now we have a huge family of square icons, that are only differentiated by their two letters and gradual colour change.
These small differences make it impossible to identify and distinguish between applications quickly – which is a major aim of an icon. One has to now read each icon, and think, before concluding what application it represents.
22 December 2006 at 10:07 AM
Mark H wrote: