macOS document icons proposal

[setanarut]

Document icons proposal compatible with the new macOS Big Sur App icon

Screenshots on Finder with dark and light mode

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Thanks to @daiyam for related Pull Request #618

[setanarut]

Also, all icons are not properly aligned. there are slight differences. Look carefully at the lower right corner.

[daiyam]

@hazarek I've made the PR #618 to generate the icons with a script. I can easily update it with a newer icon if you can provide it.

[setanarut]

[daiyam]

@hazarek Here what I get

[daiyam]

All I need is a positive vote to switch to the new icon.

@stripedpajamas What do you think of the new icons?

[setanarut]

@daiyam Can you share all generated icns files as zip? I want to examine ..

[daiyam]

Here you go: darwin.zip

[daiyam]

The new icon is overriding at little bit the main icon for shell, powershell and xml. So I will need to move it a bit or resize it. What do you think?

[setanarut]

@daiyam smaller fixed version;

[daiyam]

darwin.zip

[setanarut]

@daiyam thanks. Looks good.

[setanarut]

This is another matter of discussion I think it should be updated;

[stripedpajamas]

Yeah let's go ahead and use the proposed better contrast icons.

[sefsh]

This design doesn't adhere to the macOS Human Interface Guidelines in the slightest which will result in a non-native look. The use of small icons at the edge of the document looks more like a visual spillover from old Windows visuals.

This is what a macOS (Big Sur) document icon looks like:

[setanarut]

This design doesn't adhere to the macOS Human Interface Guidelines in the slightest which will result in a non-native look. The use of small icons at the edge of the document looks more like a visual spillover from old Windows visuals.

This is what a macOS (Big Sur) document icon looks like:

I know. I deleted my proposal in this issue because it got negative votes.

[sefsh]

Ah, okay. It looks better that way. Typeface seem a bit off but other than that it seem to adhere. I think that the VSCodium brand hints should be scratched too, as it looks a bit messy with all those details while not really communicating the logo with it being that discrete.

I think that, as shown in the link, macOS HIG prefers the document icons to be more app-agnostic than, say, Windows, meaning that the look of the document icon is detached from its associated application:

[setanarut]

@yusf There is no point in discussing these. Changes are accepted by voting. people will not accept this proposal.

[sefsh]

Which proposal?

[setanarut]

Which proposal?

Your native macOS document icons proposal #616 (comment). And my practice;

[lukateras]

@hazarek Great work! Could you share a vector version of this higher-contrast icon with white outline, if available? I am thinking of proposing a PR with similar changes to yours for Linux platform.

[setanarut]

Which icon? blue macos app icon?

[setanarut]

I guess you want the document icon. I have .afdesign files for what you see here. I exported it as pdf and svg. inside the zip file.

Arşiv.zip

[Zabriskije]

Good job @hazarek for pushing the visuals to adhere to Apple HIG.
As I've understood, there's no consent on updating the document icons, right? Such a pity.
I've made my own set in line with Apple HIG here if someone is interested. They're a lot more minimalistic than the current one.

[setanarut]

@Zabriskije Why CSS is #?

[Zabriskije]

It was in the default icon for CSS in VSCodium, should it have orange { } instead (to recall the color found in HTML)?

[setanarut]

ah, now i understand. a mistake inherited from the original icons. Some icons are not compatible with macOS. For example, I don't know what the default icon means. The original VSCode icons have the same issues.

[Zabriskije]

Maybe default is for when you assign a file to VSCode that is not one of the listed/expected. For example: if I choose a TXT file to be opened with VSCode, the app assign it the default icon.