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  • Blackrider0x

    Most of these ar quite good actualy, proffesional, just wish they would do away with the reminders icon (looks like neon trafic lights). I just wish the iOs icons would look like these!

  • Blackrider0x

    Come to think about it, what’s up with the iBook’s icon? The old one looks both simpler and better. At least the new one looks somewhat like a book, not like the mutant butterfly iOs uses!

    • Andrew

      The new icons are the ones on the right not the left. So the one on the left looks more like a book.

      • Bjorn

        Exactly, that’s the one I meant.

      • Blackrider0x

        Exactly, that’s the one I meant.

        • Daniel Cheung

          Simpler means less stuff, the right one only used 2 colors and less geometry. I think the right one is simpler, but I prefer square corners on the book instead of rounded ones.

          • Blackrider0x

            But the right one used, shadows and gradients, sure it has fewer lines, but the right one is more decorated.

    • dis666

      Not seeing any iBooks icon in this list. Was iBooks included with Mavericks? You’ve got me way confused, unless you are just meandering off-topic.

      • http://www.tekrevue.com/ TekRevue

        iBooks is third from the bottom on the first page.

    • Abraham Girt

      I agree with you, please say bad about these icons! …And OS X Yosemite!

  • Guest

    The new icons are the ones on the right not the left.

    • Greg Ferguson

      Good to point that out since most people will see the old icons and think they are the improvement over the terrible new ones.

  • BobBarker1

    I wonder what the background IN Time Machine looks like? Has the floating universe been replaced with something less…fantastic?

  • pdnellius

    You need to add Finder! It’s the most ridiculous.

    • Weelious_225

      The new Finder icon makes the old one look disgustingly outdated. It’s my favourite of the new icons.

      • pdnellius

        I totally respect your opinion, but it reminds me of a Fisher-Price toy for some reason.

      • http://rocket-rich.com Rocket Rich

        I didn’t like any of them at first didn’t even upgrade then started looking at Flat UI now and designing a rockt for http://rocket-rich.com/design-ideas.html … and after using Yosemite… LOOOOOOOOOVE it all The World is FLAT now to me at least :)

      • Abraham Girt

        You’re a goofball, evil, mussy-head.

  • http://ratkutti.wordpress.com Karthikeyan

    You gotta be kidding me, Apple.

  • Faiz Al-Qurni

    skeumorphism win i think

    • Shahmeer Salman

      no! flat icons look more cleaner

      • obadiahorthodox

        I absolutely HATE the look of the new icons, ugly as hell

      • dis666

        Ok, so make them one color, all square. CLEAN AS HECK, EH???

      • Abraham Girt

        You’re the 1st evil!

  • Every Interaction

    You’re missing the best one of all - the Finder icon itself. He got a much needed happiness injection.

    • http://www.tekrevue.com/ TekRevue

      You’re right, we missed that one! It’s now added at the top of the list. Thanks!

  • Nick Athawes

    Though I appreciate the simplicity of the Yosemite icons, I can’t help but miss the texture usage from past iterations. For example, if I still have time machine with a ‘cosmos’ effect simply because it looks nice, then why simplify the icon? It is a shame to lose OS X’s past personality

    • AspireToInspire

      It has been removed because the soul of the OS has been removed. It is just a candy store of powerpoint effects and Ive-isms. My MacPro looks like a flipping toy now, not a powerful workstation. Sorry, but Fisher Price icons do not reflect a nearly $8,000 professional workstation. Frankly, nor do updated apps like Maps when Mail is a complete disaster and the Finder still cannot keep 1000 images with previews in a window without chunking along like a sloth in a mug bog. What a train wreck of an OS.

      Good boy Ive is more concerned on putting his stamp on everything, rather than making everything worthy of the Apple signature. Phil, Tim and Craig are so bloody high when they present one would think they cured cancer, solved nuclear fusion and brought peace to the entire world overnight. It used to be that Apple had to fight to be noticed, which meant they had to be better than everyone. Today, they round a corner and they are on the front page of every techzine on the planet.

  • Zachary Ubbelohde

    The Mail icon shadow looks extreme compared to the rest of them.
    I also wish the shadows weren’t cropped on a few of them!

  • Ralph Mason

    The new Trash icon is the first thing I’ll be wanting to drag to the trash … :-/

  • Man_On_Fire

    I still don’t understand the idea behind the new Gamecenter icon bubbles. I think the old icon was better.

    • Kosame707

      Indeed, it is the weakest design of all. I cannot believe that to be the best option their designer came up with.

  • eli

    Looks good, but what is with that game center icon? so out of place.

  • http://mariano.uy/ Mariano Gutiérrez

    They took out the letter from the notepad :(

  • SΞΞZΔM

    Amazing!

  • lgsoltek

    You forget the iTunes icon too.

    • rubenrojas

      The itunes icon in yosemite DP 1 have no changes

  • Daniel Cheung

    I don’t like the drop shadow in the middle of the Finder face, I think it made it look unpolished and unprofessional. Without the drop shadow, the face would look textured like the spots on a cow and have a beautiful seam.

  • http://erickaseastrand.com/ Ericka Seastrand

    I don’t mind most of these, which probably puts me into a minority, but the Finder icon is kind of ridiculous. Inconsistent rounded corners and inconsistent line weight sharpness. It’s actually a bit reminiscent of Mac circa late 90’s instead of being this flat design they’re striving for.

  • http://www.mikemorkes.com Mike Morkes

    I wish these had been saved as PNGs with the background knocked, rather than flattened JPEGs. I wouldn’t mind building some usable icons. :(

  • amnesia

    Disgusting icons. Inconsistent design/styles, skeuomorphism… They need to fire the people who made this, ASAP. And what’s with the Mail.app icon? A postage stamp? Seriously? IT’S 2014, GOOD MORNING!

  • http://cyrilis.com/ Cyril

    Trash icon is unacceptable, others looks fine anyway.

  • Ericca

    These icons are inconsistent. Some are flat, others are semi flat, and others are 3 dimensional like the trash, notepad, and preview icons. There should be a consistent style to them all. Games is the most improved and Finder is just awful!!!

    • Ivo Gregurec

      Inconsistent, amateurish and regressive. Dock was flat until Leopard - next logical step would be integrated LEAP motion and 3D display for full 3d experience, not vista glass and linux like icons… Btw. I expected OS XI :)

  • Kosame707

    Seems like a half-hearted attempt at a flat style. The amount of detail varies from one to another and looks inconsistent on the whole. The pallet is also somewhat of a mess. I should think that an update of all system icons - if indeed that is their intention - has to be bolder, unafraid and representative of the new appearance of the next OS. If not, don’t bother changing it.

  • Ivo Gregurec

    The last Mac Pro looks like a trash can and the Trash can looks like a glass of milk… How would suppose to look a glass of milk then?

  • Ivo Gregurec

    The pen on the new TextEdit icon is most skeuomorphic object that ever came out of Apple :)

  • Tim

    Apple suffers from a lack of consistency. When designing icons for an OS that has as many different ones as the Mac, there needs to be visual links between all of the icons as well as between groups of similar icons. For example, all Utilities should use the same color, shape and style. That will immediately tell people what Kind of app it is, then the icon will describe the app itself.
    Why is Safari a round icon, but Mail is still a stamp? Why are some simple icons and others still skeuomorphic? They really need to just hire a company like IconFactory to redesign everything for them.

    • Martin

      Copy that. A complete lack of consistency throughout the logo design. Just a wild mix of 3D and flat icons.

  • Jack Spicer Adams

    I don’t like them, I much prefer these flat icons by Applove:

    http://www.behance.net/gallery/8995421/Free-program-icons

  • itsknotme

    Sadly, the Mac is trying to be compliant with the ipad and iphone hardware.

  • http://www.perezfox.com Prescott Perez-Fox

    I miss the old Trash. Everything else is fine being so similar.

  • johnTnash

    Generally speaking, I’m not a fan, but I can live with it. The biggest fail of the bunch, IMO, is the trash icon. Neither flat nor real-world. Just bizarre.

    • Sushmeit Madhavan

      Honestly though, 3D, 2D, skeomorphism, minimalism, icon conventions and other blah blah apart, the thrash can actually seems to be the direction I imagined that the direction Mac could head towards, when I first saw iOS 7. Apple’s own new way of doing ‘flat’.

  • Alexis Eduardo Morales Flores

    Good, i like it.

  • Greg Ferguson

    In EVERY case shown here, the “upgrade” destroyed any aesthetic value. Half the time I cannot find anything I am looking for - blobs of garbage instead of icons don’t impress me. What’s next - full screen charm apps? Apple seems intent on helping Microsoft reclaim market share - so many escaped the disgusting mess of Windows H8 to Apple that I guess Ives must feel bad and has decided to also ruin Apple’s O/S to help them go back. iOS 7 and iOS 8 are horrible to look at - so bad in fact, that I switched to Android just to get away from them. Now I feel like switching away from OSX - it’s putrid.

  • The Original Nerv

    The new Finder icon looks like it was developed by someone who previously worked on Windows design. Ugh!

  • dis666

    Most of these depict dumbed-down, childish, reduced depth, flat, cheap-looking, like Windows or worse. I feel like my system has been flashed back to 1989, but with better color brilliance. It looks like Hasbro was hired to design the icons. Obviously this is an attempt to move in the direction of making Mac OS look like iOS. It’s frightening, because it purports of a time in the near future when Macs will be all touch screen tablets, really just larger versions of iPad. I prefer to look straight ahead while resting my typing hands on the desk, not typing on the screen.

  • dis666

    I have heard so much from PC geeks about how awful Windows 8 looks with phone-ish icons. Now we see Apple is becoming Microsoft’s parrot. I noticed the merging of “minds” when Apple started dropping their terminology that distinguished them as not PC, such as “Desktop Background” instead of “Desktop Picture” and “Wi-Fi” in Network instead of AirPort.

  • dis666

    The shiny jellybean trend had gotten a bit out of control, with Apple and Microsoft and dozens of other development teams trying to out-shiny each other, but this is definitely too much of an about face for me to stomach. Almost all detail has been suppressed, as if the design staff had a meeting and decided none of the details could be seen clearly, so let’s just blur them out.

  • http://rocket-rich.com Rocket Rich

    I didn’t like any of them at first didn’t even upgrade then started looking at Flat UI now and designing a rockt for http://rocket-rich.com/design-ideas.html … and after using Yosemite… LOOOOOOOOOVE it all The World is FLAT now to me at least :)

    Finder Icon is definitely awesome frosted appeal great colour scheme

    • Abraham Girt

      Another goofball here!

  • Abraham Girt

    Hahaha! You Apple, make these so called cleaner professional iOS-like icons. These icons are by-far extremely ugly!

  • Abraham Girt

    Please dislike these icons!

  • Abraham Girt

    The evil Jonny Ive did it all! He created these icons, blame it on him.

  • Abraham Girt

    What happened to poor skeuomorphic? Everyone, you know just don’t upgrade! Apple will get over it someday; they will feel bad for us, and go back to skeuomorphic again. That’s what I hope for!

  • Abraham Girt

    LIKE I SAID, DON’T UPGRADE! Upgrading is not a requirement, it’s a option!

  • Abraham Girt

    When I just here the word OS X Yosemite, it makes me get angry and mad as a goofball.

  • Pontius Pilate

    I can’t stand the new look. I came here looking for an old finder icon I can insert in the OS so I don’t have to constantly view the silly replacement. The graphics cards in the mac along with the high def screens make for the best dimensional display ever and yet all the visual luxury is replaced with flattened and uninspired crap.

    • dnewton

      I’m not sure if you ever found what you were looking for, but I run on an older version of OSX and have the old finder and trash icons in a zip file. https://www.mediafire.com/?z58xgio3tzx37tt

      the pngs go into the dock.app resource folder and the finder.icns into the finder.app resource folder

      • Pontius Pilate

        Thanks very much!

        • dnewton

          No problem! glad to help haha

  • pazi11

    Why did Apple change the Finder icon? Its the damn LOGO of Mac OS! You cant change a beautiful logo into something that looks like cheap plastic.

    • dnewton

      I have the Finder icon from 10.6 https://www.mediafire.com/?z58xgio3tzx37tt
      you have to do some terminal fangling to get it to replace the file in the dock.app but imo it’s worth replacing the crappy flat yosemite/el capitan icon