Bring Back Colored Icons

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Bring back, bring back,
Oh, bring back my Colour Icons to Affinity.
Bring back, bring back,
Oh, bring back my coloured icons to me

I know this is not the official forum. But I hate Discord. I terribly miss colored icons and light UI. Monochrome Grey with no scaling on 4K is murder for eyes.

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Bring back, bring back,
Oh, bring back my Colour Icons to Affinity.
Bring back, bring back,
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me

Love your little ditty, bici.

Maybe... if you asked nicely (or better, sang ), you could request that in a future Affinity 3 update, Canva might provide both a monochrome AND a coloured icon version, so Affinity 3 users could CHOOSE...

But you will have to sing sweetly, mesmerise the Canva gods with your melodious voice and honey'd words...

DelN

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But I hate Discord

You and me both, SanSerif...

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I terribly miss colored icons and light UI. Monochrome Grey with no scaling on 4K is murder for eyes.

Then please use the in-app Suggest a feature or improvement item (available in the Ask panel or via Help menu > Send Feedback... ) to tell them about that. I suggest sending 2 of them, one for colored icons & the other for the Light UI mode.

If a lot of us do that it improves the chances of one or both of them being implemented in one of the next app updates.

Good idea so I used the "Send Feedback" option. I wonder what the in-house discussions were when they were finalizing Affinity Studio. I am sure that James Ritson knows!

in a nutshell... there was no logical good reason to eliminate the coloured icons. It was simply the decision on the part of a designer who wanted to implant their vision when no one asked for that vision. Just like designers who are destroying the Mac OS's UI.

The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing

I don’t know what the *i* in the “ⓘ” button is supposed to stand for, but it isn’t *intuitive*.

daringfireball.net

Rather than refining a good clear design, we are getting some person's idea of what is good. The focus groups to stop this nonsense are asleep!

I still have version 2.6 installed on my Windows computer and I opened it this morning. Icons are set in color on this computer. Well, I prefer the monochrome icons now. To me, the color icons give an old software look to the app.

Since I arranged all my studios tools to my liking I feel comfortable with all of them. I would not go back to color icons. But I can understand that some people miss those color icons. I don't understand why the option to allow users to choose what they like has beed removed. There must be a hidden switch somewhere.....

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Well, I prefer the monochrome icons now. To me, the color icons give an old software look to the app.

To be honest, my original thought was it’s mostly a matter of getting used to it. I like the colors because I’ve become accustomed to them, and it seems easier to find what I’m looking for. But, I think I’ll be fine with the monochrome icons, too.

maybe folks can get used to monochrome traffic lights as well. why bother with red, yellow, and green.

"why colour matters in user interfaces " Ask Riston, or better yet, someone who cares

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in a nutshell... there was no logical good reason to eliminate the coloured icons.

Technically, they did not eliminate them from V3, for reasons unknown they just did not create any of them for V3. Perhaps they will get around to doing that in some future update.

The colorless icons simply look more professional. Furthermore, I get the impression that the entire V3 version has been scaled down by removing some programming libraries. Perhaps for cost reasons.

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maybe folks can get used to monochrome traffic lights as well. why bother with red, yellow, and green.

"why colour matters in user interfaces " Ask Riston, or better yet, someone who cares

You just got on my "blocked user list" as I can't get used to monochrome brains.

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You just got on my "blocked user list" as I can't get used to monochrome brains.

I’m confused, Alain! Not much more than 24 hours ago, bici wrote:

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in a nutshell... there was no logical good reason to eliminate the coloured icons

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The colorless icons simply look more professional.

How so? Is this just because people got accustomed to the way Photoshop used monochrome ones or is there something deeper or more intrinsic about them that gives people the impression that they are more professional looking?

I have several apps on my Mac that use colored icons in the UI that I consider just as professional looking as the ones with monochrome icons, so I think this is just a matter of personal preference.

I totally agree with R C-R! However, I understand it is a personal thing. So, Affinity should offer the option to have colored icons in the tool bars or monocrome. Not difficult.

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So, Affinity should offer the option to have colored icons in the tool bars or monocrome. Not difficult.

Perhaps not difficult but it takes considerable work & more than a little talent to design a bunch of colored icons that match the general thematic appearance of the monochrome ones & will work equally well with the hopefully soon to be implemented light or dark UI option.

And of course even as it is now V3 is not totally devoid of colored UI elements, most notably the distinctive Studio colors & everywhere color is an important element of the item's function like the Color, Assets, or FX panels.

So unless one only works with greyscale documents, color is an essential part of the UI.

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maybe folks can get used to monochrome traffic lights as well. why bother with red, yellow, and green.

Oh, I love this! 😄😄😄

This is my favourite quote of the day...

I want it on a t-shirt...

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