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The Mac Pro icon in the Apple store is a mess(apple.com)
almost 4 years ago from Jordan Little, Design/Dev
Jordan Little, almost 4 years ago
A way to rephrase your comment: "I don't care about the details."
The only reason I knew the icon looked amiss was because I saw it at 32x32 on the Apple store page and it looked bad so I inspected it. Looked worse, so I posted it.
You don't have to care.
Andrew Washuta, almost 4 years ago You're not wrong. It looks pretty brutal on my 5k monitor...
Weston Vierregger, almost 4 years ago
so i re-drew the icon the exact same way i'm SURE any Apple designer would have done it originally. the circles are 1.5px in from the edges of the case, 1px horizontally spaced, 2px vertically spaced, Apple on the left, mine on the right. easy round numbers, and i'm assuming i don't have to explain to you why the circles are placed on the subpixel. here is an overlap so you can see the difference.
now... look at them side by side at 1x.. can you see the difference? i already know the answer.. it's "no".
"caring about the details" is one thing... nitpicking a 1/10th of a pixel decimal rounding error in a SVG export is just petty and annoying.
The irony of ending this string of pedantry with “petty and annoying.”
Patrik Arvidson, almost 4 years ago Sure. Visitors and non-designers in general might not notice at all. But in the end, things like this says a lot about you as a designer.
John Leschinski, almost 4 years ago
No it doesn't. Whining about an icon on another site does though.
Jim Silverman, almost 4 years ago
it looks awful at tiny size also.
uhhh...? this icon is displayed tiny in practice. these little imperfections are not noticeable at all in use... yes, SVG's drawn at small sizes can look sloppy when blown up 80x in size. it also doesn't matter at all, except to annoying designers with a tidiness fetish.