[amluto]

> Apple mostly cares about legibility and consistency in icons now, not art.

The second-to-oldest one is legible. The word “PAGES” is quite legible. It’s pretty clear what’s going on. In fact, it’s the only one in the entire set where I would look at the icon and quickly recognize what it is and what it’s for. (The one that is one iteration newer is worse because it’s less legible.)

[dd8601fn]

Nobody is mentioning that there’s essentially nowhere you see the icon now without the name (internationalized) unless you’re already familiar with it, and pinned it to a launcher or something.

The first time you see most of them they’re on a page with screenshots and descriptions.

Nobody needs to know what the Word icon is before they know what Word is.

[amluto]

I have icons of apps I’ve used many times visible in a launcher, and I still have to think about which is which because they are so nondescript.