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They've got the SF Symbols font, and probably assumed that's enough. Everyone has the same set of icons available, technically.

It seems that Apple has nobody left who has all three at the same time: taste, attention to detail, and authority to demand fixes. Having lots of people who have max two out of these three gives you designs of Microsoft and Glass Apple.





I despise SF Symbols. Cheap, lame, boring, flat little hieroglyphics do not make good icons. They're just cheap.

If rather have a boring but consistent and usable UI than something jazzy but inconsistent and broken.

Every app should not be its own little universe as if it was a videogame.


"Usable" being the key word. 12 or 14 pixel square hieroglyphics are not good icons, end of story.

SF Symbols is not a bitmap font.

But as the article shows - you don't even get consistency, since different apps pick different SF symbols for the same thing.

It's just uniformity that failed to bring real user interface consistency.




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