That's funny, they tried this with a beta of Visual Studio 2013 as well, and rolled it back. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/introducin

That's funny, they tried this with a beta of Visual Studio 2013 as well, and rolled it back. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/introducing-the-new-developer-experience.aspx?WT.mc_id=-blog-scottha http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/intr... (the hilarious original annoucement) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ChangeConsideredHarmfulTheNewVisualStudioLookAndFeel.aspx https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ChangeConsideredHarmfulTheNew... (commentary) https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-ide/suggestions/3184305-bring-back-full-color-icons-to-visual-studio-2012 https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud... (a rollback) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/ux-guidelines/images-and-icons-for-visual-studio?view=vs-2017#BKMK_UsingColorInImages https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/extensibility/... (Visual Studio 2017 icon color pallette and guidelines)