[pak]

Agreed, color is the most immediately recognizable thing about an object and this is just as bad as when Lion washed out the folder colors. It looks more minimalist/modern but is less usable. Even low-saturation colors would be nice. You could do this with font icons just by printing them in slightly different colors (like a terminal, sigh).

Edit: I could be nuts, but they are printing in slightly different colors now, whereas just an hour ago they were all gray. Somebody at github just made my day.