Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’

John Gruber:

It’s like Apple decided every single one of its own apps must wear a stupid-looking hat, and they put those stupid-looking hats on third-party apps too, whether the developers of those apps want them or not

Agree — something is rotten in the state of macOS icon design.

Presumably in the name of consistency, macOS’ icons have become more toolbar icons than iconic excellence.

The purpose of icons is right there in their name: to be iconic. Shape was often the most iconic thing about an icon. Now it’s no part at all.

It’s a damn shame is what it is.