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Mistake in new App Store icon

dwfaust said:
Wow. Somebody at Apple should be drawn and quartered. How in the world was this ever allowed to happen? Fire the QA wonk that passed this one. /s

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Hardly anything to get your panties in a wad about. *sigh*
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Some of us expect the high standards that existed in Jobs to continue. This is another example of a weak chain of command.
 
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I'm not 100% sure but I think this might actually be on purpose. It's to prevent an optical illusion that sometimes manifests when negative space is used. It looks weird of course, if you examine it under a microscope, but actually improves the look from afar. It's a technique often used in font design. I tried to find an article I read about it a few months ago but couldn't turn it up.

Maybe there's a designer type (not an armchair one) here who can remind me of the name of the technique.
 
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Feenician said:
I'm not 100% sure but I think this might actually be on purpose. It's to prevent an optical illusion that sometimes manifests when negative space is used. It looks weird of course, if you examine it under a microscope, but actually improves the look from afar. It's a technique often used in font design. I tried to find an article I read about it a few months ago but couldn't turn it up.

Maybe there's a designer type (not an armchair one) here who can remind me of the name of the technique.
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I disagree and I'm a designer.

If it was done purposefully, then why is it only the @2x icon that suffers from the bulge?
 
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msephton said:
I disagree and I'm a designer.

If it was done purposefully, then why is it only the @2x icon that suffers from the bulge?
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Probably the same reason English speakers were seeing some Right to Left icons on some devices for two releases. It's a beta.
 
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Feenician said:
I'm not 100% sure but I think this might actually be on purpose. It's to prevent an optical illusion that sometimes manifests when negative space is used. It looks weird of course, if you examine it under a microscope, but actually improves the look from afar. It's a technique often used in font design. I tried to find an article I read about it a few months ago but couldn't turn it up.

Maybe there's a designer type (not an armchair one) here who can remind me of the name of the technique.
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Yes, it should be fixed. But in the midst of a beta cycle, there are more important issues upon which the devs should be focused. Spare us the gloom and doom response to a nit.

Maybe we should round up a couple million A/R folks to critique your every move at your job.
 
Feenician said:
I'm not 100% sure but I think this might actually be on purpose. It's to prevent an optical illusion that sometimes manifests when negative space is used. It looks weird of course, if you examine it under a microscope, but actually improves the look from afar. It's a technique often used in font design. I tried to find an article I read about it a few months ago but couldn't turn it up.

Maybe there's a designer type (not an armchair one) here who can remind me of the name of the technique.
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Are you speaking of anti-aliasing?
 
dwfaust said:
Are you speaking of anti-aliasing?
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No. I'll try and find the article later I read about fonts. It was written by one of the large font houses. Essentially the gist was that for certain letter forms where there is a small amount of negative space between parts of a character, font creators sometimes draw the "wrong" shapes, parts of letters that would otherwise be identically to others, because that negative space affects the way we perceive the form.

Anyway, I thought I was pretty clear in my first post that I am not certain that's what's going on here, just that it reminded me very strongly of that.
 
Feenician said:
No. I'll try and find the article later I read about fonts. It was written by one of the large font houses. Essentially the gist was that for certain letter forms where there is a small amount of negative space between parts of a character, font creators sometimes draw the "wrong" shapes, parts of letters that would otherwise be identically to others, because that negative space affects the way we perceive the form.

Anyway, I thought I was pretty clear in my first post that I am not certain that's what's going on here, just that it reminded me very strongly of that.
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You may be right actually.

In retrospective, honestly icon design quality has decreased drastically in the past few years, starting with the amateur clipart look of iOS7, I don't know if it's worth it delving too much into this.
 
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trifid said:
You may be right actually.

In retrospective, honestly icon design quality has decreased drastically in the past few years, starting with the amateur clipart look of iOS7, I don't know if it's worth it delving too much into this.
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Yeah it's really not that important to me. I was starting to regret saying anything! :confused:
 
dwfaust said:
Yes, it should be fixed. But in the midst of a beta cycle, there are more important issues upon which the devs should be focused.
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In all seriousness, the "devs" don't create these icons. They just copy the image file to their system and it's pulled in when they build the OS.

When someone submits a bug report about this, the "devs" don't want to deal with this at this point of their release cycle.
 
simonmet said:
Is no one going to mention the direction of the shadows? Isn’t that the bigger crime? :p
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Oh, good spot.

Here are two icons extracted from an iOS 11 beta 9 ipsw

AppIcon60x60@2x.png

AppIcon60x60 @2x.png (spot the bulge)

AppIcon76x76@2x~ipad.png

AppIcon76x76 @2x~ipad.png (no bulge)
 
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Meanwhile I'm just pissed off at YouTube red and Tapatalk as I can't use them at the same time.

The icon is ugly period. It just looks like three typical sticks from ice cream pops or the ones used in elementary school.
 
Feenician said:
I'm not 100% sure but I think this might actually be on purpose. It's to prevent an optical illusion that sometimes manifests when negative space is used. It looks weird of course, if you examine it under a microscope, but actually improves the look from afar. It's a technique often used in font design. I tried to find an article I read about it a few months ago but couldn't turn it up.

Maybe there's a designer type (not an armchair one) here who can remind me of the name of the technique.
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Entasis perhaps??? (I remember it from a humanities class where they were talking about this design technique used to keep straight columns from appearing curved.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entasis?wprov=sfti1
 
naasrd said:
Some of us expect the high standards that existed in Jobs to continue. This is another example of a weak chain of command.
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While I agree that it needs to be fixed, the bulge has nothing to do with Steve, nor does it have anything to do with the chain of command. Stop being so dramatic.
 
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trifid said:
This is the icon that started it all:

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I wonder how we got from that to the 3 hot dogs.
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I can’t help but feel a sense of devolution when comparing that to the latest version.

Is this just symbolic of the dumbing-down of society in general?
 
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