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Everything on the left (except Tux) is terrible today and that’s fine, things evolve. It would be fun to see modern versions of each of those logos though.
I was so in love with Pidgin for a while that I even made a mock-up for how to improve it. I think I still have blog posts up about it.
Including Tux, they look like they’re from the 90s (probably because they are). I’m glad we don’t see much of the branding mascots anymore, even Tux isn’t really heard of now.
I still use pidgin and finch… They’re admittedly wonky but the only way I’ve figured out how to get a lightweight client for m$ teams (need for work…)
I think they just meant the logos are terrible, rather than the software
I used pidgin all the time about 10 years ago for MSN. Has it changed?
Firefox 3 was published in 2008. This post is 16 years old.
Soul is when cartoon animal
I wonder what is OPs take on Darwin mascot.
Probably that it’s perfect and full of soul
But it’s not really an animal.
Edit: just noticed fedora’s whateverthefuckthisthingis and it’s on the left.
I think it gets a pass. The only way for software to have soul is if its icon doesn’t indicate what the software does in any way.
Right side are all icons for the default apps that come with the OS, the left side are all apps that are independent from one another. A fairer comparison would be to use the icons for default apps for Mint for example, and…
Ill take soulless thanks. Those terrible icons need to stay in 2004.
As a graphic designer, I would argue Apple’s designs are woefully behind on the times.
I think both of these are fine. Certainly way better than most App icons on Android.
I like the wonky icons on the left a lot. GNU is so unreasonably ugly, I can’t not love it.
You mean you don’t like the stoned Buffalo?
If you scream you die.
One does not talk about the sandwich
Some GNU projects have amazing official logos:
https://www.gnu.org/graphics/package-logos.html
I like pascal especially.Rcutils is literally two turtles fucking lmao
Actually, I kinda like definition of fossy things being soul(ful?) vs soulless megacorp software. Even tho people are being both, the latter seem … at least selfish, lych-like perhaps.
The left are handmade and the right, a employee got promoted for getting some Getty Images licensed.
… what?
Finder, Safari and Mail icons are iconic symbols created a loong time ago and thankfully apple didn’t butcher them completely when they got modernized. The rest are generic, but very much in a specific Apple style of icon born with the OS X.
Still soulless af.
