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Am I the only one to think that icons that prominently feature a letter to represent the app aren't very... iconic? Is this from the school of thought that gave

Am I the only one to think that icons that prominently feature a letter to represent the app aren't very... iconic? Is this from the school of thought that gave rise to Adobe's adoption of their new "icons"? Thankfully this pattern seems to be more rule than exception. Very few of the icons in my Dock have letters (or glyphs) in them at all. Notably, Skype uses a big S in some circle-y kinda thing, X11 has the "X" and Angband uses some vaguely Asian-looking thing.

spiralganglion 16y ago
Checklist for a powerful brand: 1) An icon where the name of the object depicted in the icon is the name of the company or product. 2) A company/product name that's also a common noun, but not so common that search results for the noun overpower search results for the company/product. Depends on the prominence of the product/company, of course. 3) A domain name that is the exact company/product name. Eg: Apple. Good luck finding something that matches these requirements! I'm half-joking, of course. In all seriousness, I 100% agree with you. Icons should be graphic, not textual. They should be expressive, not descriptive.