Apple’s Icon Regression

2026-01-18 @ 9 PM - #apple, #hacker-news

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

A very correct take.

I don’t really get how the oldest ink pot icon is the ‘best’, but the new Liquid Glass icons are so much worse than the others that it’s genuinely saddening. I personally think that the initial Big Sur icons were the epitome of Apple’s modern icon designs.