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It is, but it is still really ugly and feels very out of place on a Mac. edit: typo

• tablespoon 5y ago
  > It is, but it is stilly really ugly and feels very out of place on a Mac. How? I just download it, an the icon looks totally fine to me. Also, BBEdit is really old. Having it change its name to suit modern fashions is about as desirable as having Emacs do the same.
  • spiderice 5y ago
    I agree, I'm not suggesting a name change at all. That would be bad. And obviously the idea of the icon being ugly is completely objective, but I just don't like it. Bad colors. Bad shapes. Idk. It looks old, probably because it is. But plenty of old companies have modernized their logos in a pleasant way.
    • tablespoon 5y ago
      > I agree, I'm not suggesting a name change at all. I was kinda responding to an ancestor comment with that statement. > Bad colors. Bad shapes. Idk. It looks old, probably because it is. But plenty of old companies have modernized their logos in a pleasant way. Modernization is often a regression. Looking at the icons in my apps folder, there are way too many seemingly standard-size circles differentiated by a little color or a less-prominent icon, and most of the rest are a standard-size squares with similar characteristics. It's like if the alphabet was all O's, but with different colors and small diacritics. IMHO, "modern" UIs tend far too much towards indistinguishably in order to achieve a "unified" look, which looks good in a quick demo but is detrimental to daily use. However, the ultimate mistake is Apple's, for creating a text-free dock that makes the icons do too much work. And of course, Apple's mistakes must be copied by everyone else, because they're so good at marketing (I'm looking at you, Microsoft).