Mac OS X Yosemite Under the Magnifying Glass
Apple revealed a sneak peek into Mac OS X Yosemite earlier this week. Not surprisingly, Apple updated its desktop OS to match iOS 7’s design language. The new OS X now embodies a brighter and flatter styling, coupled with icon updates, font changes, and translucent materials. Here’s a quick look at the visual design changes in Yosemite and my impressions of them.
I generally like the new application icons (except for System Preferences) and Dock. I’m not fond of the bright blue folders, the thin and hollow toolbar buttons, the translucent and sidebars and title bars, or the readability of Helvetica Neue.
Update (2014-06-18): There’s a new (and better) System Preferences icon in DP 2.
Update (2014-08-01): Paul Kafasis:
The simplification generally works well. These new icons are still recognizable as representations of real-world objects, without unnecessary embellishments or detail. However, Safari’s new icon is somewhat problematic.
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When SpamSieve will be available for Yosemite?
@Jesper: It might be better than the iOS Safari icon but it still sucks hugely when compared to the current OS X Safari icon.
@michael: do you really like the new Finder icon?
@Yuri Please see this thread.
@someone The new Finder icon isn’t my favorite, but I don’t think it’s that bad, either.
The OS X Safari icon is so much better than the iOS Safari icon it's not even funny. And someone needs to have a translucency intervention.