{"id":52628,"date":"2026-07-16T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52628"},"modified":"2026-07-16T15:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T19:43:30","slug":"clear-and-tinted-icons-are-a-hard-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/clear-and-tinted-icons-are-a-hard-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Clear and Tinted Icons Are a Hard Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/07\/06\/do-you-use-it-clear-and-tinted-icons-are-a-hard-pass\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/07\/06\/do-you-use-it-clear-and-tinted-icons-are-a-hard-pass\/\">\n<p>Of the TidBITS readers who chose to respond to the poll, only 1% said they use clear icons on the Mac, and no one admitted to using tinted icons. On the iPhone, clear icons were twice as popular&mdash;a whopping 2%&mdash;and just 1% of respondents said they use tinted icons. Dark icons, which retain color, were slightly more popular, but still couldn&rsquo;t exceed single digits, with 6% on the Mac and 9% on the iPhone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Squircle Jail is one thing; redesigning icons to be assembled within Icon Composer is another. The latter makes a lot less sense but for supporting clear and tinted icons.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/16\/golden-gate-squircle-jail\/\">Golden Gate Squircle Jail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/23\/icon-composer-notes\/\">Icon Composer Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/19\/macos-tahoes-new-theming-system\/\">macOS Tahoe&rsquo;s New Theming System<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Of the TidBITS readers who chose to respond to the poll, only 1% said they use clear icons on the Mac, and no one admitted to using tinted icons. On the iPhone, clear icons were twice as popular&mdash;a whopping 2%&mdash;and just 1% of respondents said they use tinted icons. Dark icons, which retain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-07-16T19:43:00Z","apple_news_api_id":"6a1df3f4-eb93-4d6a-a43c-732645d02a74","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-07-16T19:43:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aah3z9OuTTWqkPHMmRdAqdA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1805,77,2783,545,2785,30,2742],"class_list":["post-52628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dark-mode","tag-design","tag-icon-composer","tag-icons","tag-liquid-glass","tag-mac","tag-macos-tahoe-26"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52628"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52632,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52628\/revisions\/52632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}