Rounded corners are one of the common things on macos that make it look modern and cheerful. iphone icons are more pleasing because of this.
other platforms should add more of this.
other platforms should add more of this.
Also, Susan Kare didn’t know about vector graphics. That’s why all her icons ended up pixelated! But it was… quite iconic at the time.
It was because she had only two colors to work with, black and white, and only two icon sizes, 16x16 and 32x32.
Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson only got 32x32 B&W icons for their own portraits:
https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html
> Icons were only 32 by 32 black or white pixels, 1024 dots in total
Susan posted more examples here:
It was only when I later re-read the comment I replied to, with the part about Bill Atkinson not knowing about the border-radius feature in CSS, that I realized what was going on.
At least I hope my note about the pixelated icons may have been of interest to a few.
Thanks for keeping me on my toes!
I remember with great displeasure the bad old days of creating a 3x3 table for every container and jamming a rounded corner gif into each of the four corners to create this effect.
So if it is software, then it's very low level and with darker blacks than anything else on screen, and has a super tiny bezel right at the corner. I'm pretty sure it's a cutout.