Change the app icon colors back
The updates within the Adobe applications themselves as of 6/16/2020 are fine, but the icons are a mess! These are staple icons and now all of the core apps people actually use are the same color. Give me back my rainbow! Now Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects, Audition... they're all blue or purple! I want back the deep purple of Premiere Pro. The green of Dreamweaver. They don't have to be identical to what they were and getting rid of the boarders is fine but now they're way too similar. Everyone loves the Adobe Rainbow.
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mykey maker
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Seriously,
now the icons don't serve the Basic Functions of an icon, VISUAL DISTINCTION and IDENTIFICATION
if employees are bored, we have a list. including making XD look like an actual adobe program
not make every icon look like each other
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Durham Bell
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Scott Warren: All the yes!
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Durham Bell
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I was about to raise this issue. It makes it VERY hard to differentiate them visually. I've no idea what they were thinking, but they were mistaken imo. It seems like they are coded somehow because all of the "AE Purple" icons look to be related to A/V production. Lightroom Classic and Photoshop are still blue, but an identical blue (I feel like LR was a bit lighter before). Then Illustrator is still that burnt orange, and I think (just uninstalled it for space) InDesign is still magenta.
I keep opening the wrong app. When that's After Effects, and I'm on my laptop, that's 5 minutes of time wasted.
(attached: new icons 🤮 from Win 10)
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Anonymous
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The rainbow icon needs to go. Change it back to the red icon.
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Ava-Mae Bassett
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Adobe could still integrate rounded corners with the old colors. Just looking back at what they used to look like reminded me of how much more contrast there was between them. Also they were more bright and exciting!
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Anonymous
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This is the NUMBER ONE THING that ruins CC for me. I am irritated anew as I begin my work day. I use Bridge, PS, IDD, DW and sometimes IL and that black and white Bridge icon is nearly indistinguishable on my black taskbar.
BIG. HUGE. FAIL, Adobe.
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Scott Warren
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Imagine this kind of color separation just without the borders :)
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Scott Warren
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I'm not sure what the internal discussion was like where a room of people agreed to homogenize app and file icons like this, but it wasn't a great call as far as usability goes.
At a glance, we should be able to tell what file is associated with what program, and we should also be able to glance at the taskbar to instinctively know what program to launch or switch to.
Having everything the same color makes that impossible!
What's funny is the Creative Cloud icon itself uses a rainbow; shouldn't icons utilize different colors to stand apart as well?
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Keith
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It's not only about "loving" the rainbow. Having each app with its own color improves productivity. If I'm working in a folder with a variety of files, a huge part of locating the right file quickly is looking at the color of the icons and knowing which ones are After Effects vs. Premiere, at an instant glance. Now I have to squint and think harder. Yes it sounds like a small thing on the surface, but when you have to deal with tons of files throughout the day, it really adds to the mental load in way that was never a problem before.
