macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

One thing about the AppleScript icon that you don’t notice until you pay attention is that that the paper curls to form an “S”. The rotation and the reduced emphasis on the paper's edge in the update breaks that imagery.

It's not a nit that has to be picked, but it does dim Apple's "whoa, they thought that through?" aura.

Edit: So, upon doing some more inspection, it looks like Apple's Script Editor already does use this fallen-over paper. So that should challenge our assumptions about what the rotation may or may not mean as a portent for Apple's design competency. https://help.apple.com/assets/65DFB44F6D920677C90E20C9/65DFB...

It looks bad in that icon too, which is from the Big Sur era of "mostly squircles but not squircle jail yet".

Liquid glass looks like some freeware teenager icon pack from gnome-look.org

And we would have laughed at it.

That made me laugh because that’s exactly what it is.

The Script Editor logo used to be a physical paper with the AppleScript logo printed on it correctly, but seen at an angle in perspective (so the AppleScript logo was tilted as a result), with a pen on top.

When they switched from the original physical-looking icons, whichever designer drew the new one wasn't paying attention and apparently didn't understand the physical context of the previous logo and they screwed up the revision by keeping the (now-nonsensical) tilt.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101207035423if_/http://upload....

thank you for unlocking the mystery