Firstly, apologies if you can't unsee this after I've pointed it out.
If you look at the new App store icon it's as if three sticks have been laid on top of each other interlocking. I really like this new icon design.
Now, look at the 12 o'clock position where the stick on the left casts a shadow on the stick on the right. Can you see the bulge on the left stick where it casts the shadow? This is a sub-pixel alignment problem due to the shadow being incorrectly positioned in the original artwork. The mistake is less obvious when the icon is resized but it's still there.
I appreciate not everybody will be able to see this without zooming in. So here's an @3x enlarged screen grab...
"Are you getting it yet?"
Here's a red line drawn along the bulge.
I reported this as radar bug report 34033524 and it was closed as "Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended" ...which I find disappointing but not surprising.
And here's the original once again:
I only have an iPhone 6s, which these screenshots of the problem were grabbed from. edit: it's also on my iPod touch 6th generation.
On this iPad screenshot of iOS 11 beta 6 the problem is not there: https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/img_094d49493179-1.jpeg
Which makes me think the problem may only be at certain (@2x?) icon sizes?
iPhone Plus, iPad and Apple TV devices seem unaffected.
If you look at the new App store icon it's as if three sticks have been laid on top of each other interlocking. I really like this new icon design.
Now, look at the 12 o'clock position where the stick on the left casts a shadow on the stick on the right. Can you see the bulge on the left stick where it casts the shadow? This is a sub-pixel alignment problem due to the shadow being incorrectly positioned in the original artwork. The mistake is less obvious when the icon is resized but it's still there.
I appreciate not everybody will be able to see this without zooming in. So here's an @3x enlarged screen grab...
"Are you getting it yet?"
Here's a red line drawn along the bulge.
I reported this as radar bug report 34033524 and it was closed as "Engineering has determined that this issue behaves as intended" ...which I find disappointing but not surprising.
And here's the original once again:
I only have an iPhone 6s, which these screenshots of the problem were grabbed from. edit: it's also on my iPod touch 6th generation.
On this iPad screenshot of iOS 11 beta 6 the problem is not there: https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/img_094d49493179-1.jpeg
Which makes me think the problem may only be at certain (@2x?) icon sizes?
iPhone Plus, iPad and Apple TV devices seem unaffected.
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