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whattoday at 5:41 AM1 replyview on HN

FaceTime is a video camera, messages is a speech bubble. They look nothing alike except they share the same colors?


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dijittoday at 8:36 AM

they share so much visual language that I always do a double-take when I am about to click on MacOS.

You’re right that in isolation they are visually distinguished, but our eyes don’t see colour uniformly, and these icons do not exist in isolation.

I guess frosted white on green is not a good combination for quickly discerning shape.