Apple has changed its Finder icon, and folks (including me) are wondering why.
Apple has applied the new Liquid Glass texture to the Finder icon, which is no surprise. But it’s also swapped around the iconic blue and white colors, breaking decades of icon design history.
Ever since 1996, the smiling Finder icon has featured a blue left side, and a light blue, then later grey, right side. According to Wikipedia, the “Happy Mac” “draws inspiration from the design of the Compact Macintosh series and from the Batman character Two-Face.
Lots of folks aren’t happy with the change. As noted by Creative Blog, Apple’s reasons for changing the icon aren’t clear, but the reaction from users is, with countless social media posts calling for the update to be reversed, as well as suggestions for alternate design routes Apple could have taken.
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