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The current icons really aren't that good. Looking at apple specifically: The facetime and messages icons are almost completely indistinguishable. Get angry and say I'm blind, but so is a lot of the userbase - like legitimately, legally blind people.

The camera icon on iOS is just a fucking camera lens with a grey background. No context.

The calculator one is actually pretty good.

The photos one is also bullshit lol.

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FaceTime is a video camera, messages is a speech bubble. They look nothing alike except they share the same colors?

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they share so much visual language that I always do a double-take when I am about to click on MacOS.

You’re right that in isolation they are visually distinguished, but our eyes don’t see colour uniformly, and these icons do not exist in isolation.

I guess frosted white on green is not a good combination for quickly discerning shape.