Elttob

Maybe I should work on my presentation. I'm highly passionate about the project and I honestly do not like the icons. I mean, there's some good stuff in there, but I think it could be better. Also the whole 'keep the colours the same' thing is more about muscle memory than any sort of feelings about the colour purple.

Dude. I'm not saying it's bad because it's change. I'm very much open to change! They are just my own observations, and I really do want to like them, but I don't, and that's my constructive criticism of the new icons. I like the focus on better supporting high DPI displays, and I'm a long time fan of paint.net. It's just my opinion.

I do not like these new icons at all (just got them in the beta). Showed them to my friend, he agreed. Here's what I'm suggesting, as a UI designer: The colours are much too different and many of them are very low contrast with the Dark theme and even with each other, I'd appreciate if you retained the original colours, or at least colours close to them. Especially change the colours on the Gradient and Shape tools, blend type dropdown, shape fill/outline options, back to what they were, they look terrible imho. Also a lot of the icons that are purple now are pretty unappealing - change them back to blue pls. Some icons imo deserve a complete rework, including these: - Open (try using the vertical folder style to be consistent with the rest of Windows) - Zoom (a plus sign would work much better than the visually noisy.. arrows? I can't tell what they are, they're just 2x2 pixel cubes on my regular DPI monitor) - Sharpen (what even is this icon, an isosceles triangle cut in half? glasses worked better as a visual metaphor) - Turbulence (misleading icon - looks more like some sort of distortion effect rather than a weird opalescent-looking cloudy effect) - Dents (what is this ribbony-looking thing?) - Unfocus (you could just use a front-facing eye instead of the weird abstract thing you got right now) - Antialiased selection quality (an ellipse was much more recognisable than the weird rounded thing we have now) If you're going for an Office 2013 style, I'd change the colour of the shapes in the Shapes tool dropdown to grey, not blue. Also you should probably discontinue the double outline thing you do to those - replace it with a single outline like what Microsoft does in their software. Also, if I end up never liking these icons, a settings option to use the old style icons and colours would be much appreciated, alongside the already existing theme options. I want to like these icons, but they're just not all that great. I think you tried too hard to look like Office when the general style you had before already worked. I think for the flat style icons you should really have preserved the general style and feel of those, but without the extra skeuomorphism and ornamentation.