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These articles are largely pointless, since taste is subjective.

For instance, I find a few of Leo's icons to look slightly better and a few to look slightly worse. Going down the page, JustD's, Zane's, and Ida's icon sets look worse overall, in my opinion.

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For those interested, the Dribbble pages linked in the post contain actual conversations about what works and what does not (as well as justifications for both that go beyond "because I said so"). I tend to favour that over the style of the blog post which seems to be saying, "these are better than Apple's icons, because I like them more".

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html

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