21 days ago
- Discusses the historical design of early Mac application icons, which were 32×32 pixels and limited to black and white.
- Highlights the original MacWrite and MacPaint icons as examples, featuring tilted rectangles with hands to indicate action-oriented apps.
- Explains that document icons were upright rectangles with dog-eared corners and no hands, differentiating them from app icons.
- Mentions other Apple app icons like MacDraw and HyperCard, noting deviations such as HyperCard's stack of rectangles.