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The new icon is better, but I still prefer this third party icon: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...

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There are a bunch of 3rd party icons that are all better than the new icon. I aggregated them last month:

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2012/01/sublime-text-2-icon-repla...

those are just mimicking "web 2.0" or apple-style fads. None of them works better as an identity (except the one by Nate Beaty, but the new one is still prettier).

The Icon Factory does (highly acclaimed and visible) work. The new icon is about a million times more polished than any of those options, in my opinion.

I was excited to read that Iconfactory did the latest icon, but quite frankly, I think the new icon is worse.

My favorite replacement is still this beauty by Daniel Matarazo: https://github.com/dmatarazzo/Sublime-Text-2-Icon

The new icon looks great on Windows but horrible on Mac. I think different icon files are being used..

Here's another, different concept: https://github.com/jnelson/Sublime-Text-2-icon---buddha-halo [EDIT: comments/critique welcome, it's mine, I'm not a good designer]

I prefer the one I did http://drbl.in/cBbb

But then, I am biased. :P

The new icon is worse. It doen't look like a key. I only figured that out after reading the article. It's not square made worse by the perspective. The other alternatives look much better.

It does look like a key. A key on a macbook pro.

http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/249927-apple-macbook-pro-...

Sidenote, who uses Java Applets to display videos in a webpage?

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