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The new icons in Canary make Edge's design feel even more disconnected from Windows.
https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/full-page-screen-capture-edge.jpg in Canary don't match those of the rest of the Windows operating system. In any Windows app, the settings icon has...
Well there are 2 things that could be related to this decision:
1. Windows 10 is used on a wide variety of devices, from HoloLens to Laptops to Desktops to Tablets etc. Touch/Keyboard/Mouse
2. Edge is a multiplatform browser, for all OSes out there.
for me when I installed Canary and noticed the new icons, I liked them (just because they felt new)
I would also like to see consistency between Windows 10 and Edge icons.
and hopefully someone from Edge team will explain why this radical change happened to Edge icons.
- As I mentioned in the post, I think the current icons are the ones that are consistent with Windows. Yes, Edge is multiplatform, but all of Microsoft's multiplatform apps have different icons for each platform. To Do is a great example of this--the app on mobile and on Windows has different icons for the default lists (different icons for My Day, Planned, and Tasks for example). Currently, the icons for Windows apps all have a consistent feel to them: thinner lines and sharper corners. The icons for mobile apps have a consistent feel too: thicker lines and rounder corners. But the new Edge Canary icons look like mobile icons on a Windows app and feel out of place.
- It doesn't feel out of place for me. like I said icons were the first thing I noticed and liked when I installed Edge canary recently
- AFAIK Microsoft is going to update Windows 10 UI (and icons) in 2021, so they will be consistent
- As long as the UI update includes updating the icons to be the same as the icons for Microsoft's mobile apps, then it will be fine that Edge does this change. But they should definitely not implement this change in Edge before it comes to Windows. Edge already has a completely different design from Windows and they shouldn't make it worse than it already is.
- Yeah I remember reading about Panos Panay taking over the design part of Windows
