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Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason

Apple’s Icons Have That Shape for a Very Good Reason

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The Shape Of Apple Icons

The Shape Of Apple Icons

Since Ios 7, App Icons went from being rounded squares to something more complex and refined. Apple has created design consistency between their hardware and software. If you’ve been designing Icons, you know that they’re something different.

Apple has created design consistency between their hardware and software.

Apple’s icons are not rounded rectangles because their hardware products aren’t.

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Apple’s icons are like their hardware products

A ‘secret’ of Apple’s physical products is that they avoid tangency (where a radius meets a line at a single point) and craft their surfaces with what’s called curvature continuity.

This small design upgrade ensures seamlessness in how their software and hardware products look, without any sudden break or interruption on the surfaces.

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Minimalistic Is Classy

Apple products are described as minimalistic, but ‘minimalistic’ shouldn’t be confused with ’simple.’ There’s nothing simple about the surfacing efforts on their hardware products. It’s not something the average Apple product owner is likely to be aware of unless pointed out by their Industrial Designer friend. 

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