[flying_sheep]

That's why I think Adobe has made the smart move. They simply use English as the icon, color as the impression.

You can guess via the English if you are unfamiliar with the icon. And easy to spot via the color if you already know the icon.

Let's say if I forget the characters in the Illustrator icon. But I can recognize the icon is Illustrator because of its orange color.

[dylan604]

I think Microsoft was even better, at least on the number of users that recognized the blue W for making documents the e icon to get online, etc. That's how my mom did it, but she would have no idea what Ps, Il, Ae, would mean

[Sohcahtoa82]

And if you arrange the icons right on your task bar, you can make it spell lewd things.

[paulddraper]

That gets harder if you have 200+ products.