When it comes to design, Apple is not a lazy company. Cupertino sweats the little details that, like that anecdote about the rider from Van Halen’s “no brown M & Ms” concert, shows that he also sweats the great details.
That’s why Apple fans seem so surprised to see that the macOS Big Sur digital color meter icon has something, well, a little out of place. Can you see what’s wrong?
As Twitter user Roel Van Gils saw it, the icon for the Digital Color Meter on macOS Big Sur features a pipette with liquid that defies physics and appears to lean to the left.
“I have a rare eye condition called achromatopsia, which affects one in 40,000 people,” said Van Gils Cult of mac. “This means that I am 100% colorblind. I see the whole world, including this icon, only in shades of gray. “
Digital Color Meter is a built-in Mac utility that is used to measure (and duplicate) the color value of any pixel on the screen.
“In my job, I often use color pickers to identify colors on the screen,” said Van Gils, a consultant who helps companies create accessible websites and applications for disabled users. “Despite my disability, I think I have developed a special eye for detail. Naturally, other aspects besides the colors in the design caught my attention. Maybe that’s why I realized this gravitational failure right away?
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Digital color meter icon error correction
Perhaps there is some strange gravitational pull at the Cupertino design offices. Or perhaps the icon represents a pipette in a very sudden movement. Chances are that Apple designers simply took the icon from last year and rotated it without paying due attention.
A little detail? You gamble. The kind of things Apple fans stand up for on social media? Of course.
Because this is the Internet, users immediately stepped in to “fix” Apple’s mistake, either offering pranks to explain the icon’s odd tilt of the liquid, or snapping pictures of their laptops at an angle to make levels appear normal. One suggested that the icon designer remove “attention to detail” from his resume.
However, Van Gils said he doesn’t take the crazed icon very seriously.
“Big Sur is only in Beta 1, so I guess this will be fixed,” he said. “Of course, this is not a big deal … It’s just an icon. But I thought about it [was amusing]. “
More macOS Big Sur icons
We recently compared the Big Sur icons to the Catalina icons to show all the changes, big and small, that Apple made for this year’s macOS update. Some of them look fantastic. Others not so much.
Any other weird design quirks you’ve noticed on the new macOS Big Sur icons? Let us know in the comments below.
