Adobe’s Redesigned Creative Cloud Icons Are Driving Users Bonkers
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A shared frustration of creative professionals, who are forced to stare at their desktops for hours on end, is the design inconsistency of Adobe’s Creative Cloud icons. And while the creative software giant unveiled a complete brand revamp a few weeks back, the logos are still just as—if not more—jarring.
Critics are decrying that app icons with previously proper distinctions have become too consistent, while areas that required uniformity are now eye-twitchingly different.
Most unsettlingly, the icons for Adobe Prelude, Character Animator, Rush, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Animate suddenly seem to share the same color, while some of the graphics vary in size.
Creative professionals also bemoan that the text in the icons isn’t consistently aligned, an especially unpleasant sight when viewed aside each other on their docks.
“This comes from a company that specializes in art and design overall. Let that sink in,” one wrote.
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Adobe CC icons have all updated to the BASICALLY THE SAME COLOUR. Why would you do that pic.twitter.com/maSQtPvBNE
— Chain Bear (@chainbear) June 16, 2020
going to go out of my way to ensure i never update my adobe apps now because of this boneheaded icon redesign. who thought it was a good idea to remove the color differences between each program, now it's an indistinguishable mess pic.twitter.com/jh9WZ2Qqiz
— Billy Chitkin (@_gernge) June 16, 2020
It seems I'm not the only one who has noticed the badly aligned letters on the new Adobe icons. Its madness getting rid of the colors too. If you're going to make them the same color you need to stop using letters & use more meaningful symbols. Creatives are visual thinkers Adobe https://t.co/f3mqdT1NXO
— Angie Taylor (@theAngieTaylor) June 18, 2020
I wasn't going to comment on the updated Adobe icons ... but what the bloody hell is this? WHY are After Effects and Premiere the same colour? WHY is the XD icon bigger than the rest? @Adobe are pioneers of the creative industry producing these remember. pic.twitter.com/Oq1IoID144
— Charlie O'Halloran (@OHLLRN) June 17, 2020
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