Vscode New logo

[herper]

• VSCode Version:1.17.0
• OS Version:windows 10 X64 15063.632

Steps to Reproduce: new logo put into the start menu is ugly！

[tehbeard]

This new logo looks like a cheap knock off of the Sublime Text logo...

Come on guys, this is a great product, you're better than this.

[lipstick-turtleback]

I can't work because of it! Please change it back asap or I'll newer finish my project :(

[ntkhoi]

Personally, I like the new logo

[iyedb]

Yes please bring back the new logo. vscode has become my only and primary editor but new logo is just awful (color and design wise) but especially that faded orange color. It will be interesting to see how MS reacts to this feedback. I will seriously consider switching to another editor it the icon problem is not fixed.

[zubivan]

Maybe, (VSCode is so extensible, right?) we can get an option to configure the icon with user settings?

P.S. I'm not a big fan of this change to orange, what was it driven by?

[iyedb]

Can it be configured with an extension :D

[ifeltsweet]

I feel sorry for the designer who spent time and effort on developing this new icon. We've all been there when we thought we were actually doing something great but when shared with others received negative feedback. Cheer up!

I'm on the same side with most people here, the color of the icon is very unattractive. The composition is even worse. In the age and time when streamlined, flat, simple graphics are all the craze this one feels like something from the era of 2000's.

Previous icon was actually very good. Maybe it needed some slight polish but nothing more.

It's funny how we are obsessed with little things, so seemingly unimportant. But it does in fact cost productivity for some of us.

[isergey]

I'm so sorry sorry, but color of new icon like piece of shit :(

[Dalstroem]

I don't think the new icons are bad or ugly. But I don't understand why the stable is "Orange" and the insider is "Green"!

Normally orange is associated with warning or danger, where green is stable, ready og done.

[Veyhunk]

Blue maybe better

[mvenuksai]

Blue logo back please!!!

[Tekbr]

-- Sorry for the English, I used Google Translator --

I do not like the "opening" on the back.

I think it looks better this way, in my opinion (done in Paint - sorry :laughing: )

[Bubbit]

I think the new logo is nicely aligned with my notes on MacOSX 👍

[0xdeafcafe]

I'm a fan of @Tekbr's post above. The half-vs icon is just weird, and orange as the logo colour when the app border is blue is just weird.

[billinghamj]

The Mac & Linux ones should be the same too though - the weird rotated semi-3D effect is not good.

[bithooked]

@Bubbit - Good catch. It aligns with one of the few skeuomorphic icons that Apple has been too lazy to redesign to match modern flat icons that have been the modern norm for several years. I think you've illustrated the problem perfectly.

[Knagis]

Why not just include multiple icons in the .exe - at least on Windows it is easy enough to change which icon is used for the shortcut - just click "Properties" -> "Change icon"?

But personally I have no problem with the orange one - I probably like it better than the blue one because there are already so many blue icons...

[coolicer]

So ugly, I can't accept it.

[technoiswatchingyou]

Folks, new logo is not ugly. It's a good logo fo sure but... Main thing here that logo is out of a whole design concept. For me personally old one was the best in terms of VSCode's concept.

P.S.: But i don't care much to be honest because VSCode's logo != my code (and yours).

[djensen47]

The logo looks like an ichthys or "Jesus fish" outlined by the letter J.

I know developers sometimes get "religious" about their IDEs but this might be taking it a step too far. (whomp whomp <sad-trombone/>)

[pujianto]

looks good on Ubuntu

[sudopluto]

looks more like microsoft office than a text editor

[haseebeqx]

looks very ugly in ubuntu. worst logo for such a great tool. old one was perfect

[verlok]

I’ve read everything you wrote and I wanted to recap:

• we don’t like the way the icon is rotated on Mac, because the rotated icons belong to the past
• we don’t like the new color of the icon because it’s different from the bottom bar of VS code
• we designed some really good alternative icons here, you should really take a look at them

Thank you for your time, we’re really hoping this item will change in the next release

[ghost]

I really dislike this new colour too :( Please give the option to use the old blue one! My taskbar used to look nice and now it has an ugly orange icon on it

[isergey]

Please, sign the petision https://www.change.org/p/developers-bring-back-the-old-visual-studio-code-logo

[BigWillie]

I switched back to VS code a few weeks ago... on the basis of this logo, I think I might go back to Vim....

[qiaoyixuan]

very ugly!very angry! 😡

[jtafurth]

Hate every pixel!!

[martinsuchan]

The new orange color just feels wrong. Visual Studio always used purple or blue color. VS2017 has purple, VSCode should use the light blue, just like before.
I have no problem with the shape even thought the original Infinity symbol was a bit better.

[felipemullen]

+1 on going back to the old logo. Either the purple one shown by @LeoLozes or the blue one that was being used before this release. I can see why it happened from microsoft's standpoint, since it aligns with the style used by visual studio.. but..

The new logo is very unattractive and ugly

Part of the reason many people were open to trying out VSCode is because it is not like Visual Studio in the first place, so from a marketing point of view you may want to reconsider the decision to confuse people further

[jbrodriguez]

So, an icon look detracts from a product's technical merits ... why? why ??? once you click, you can forget about it ... I certainly don't like the new icon, but right now, vscode is the best electron-based editor available.

[ghost]

can we go back to the blue one please, I keep thinking that I'm on the insiders build, at least use a differnet color, the current one doesn't make sense, why would they both be orange

I extracted the old icon from a setup file, please upload it somewhere else as I will delete it eventually https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4sNN4V6cKmhc2NmSTNHMzBTMGs/view

@jbrodriguez it scales down poorly, it's busy, and it looks like two icons crammed into one.

I think this is how any icons should normally look. I can't put it into words, I can barely type right now. https://i.imgur.com/joTcQSu.png

I don't mind the orange color, but remove the part that's completely detached from the icon itself. https://i.imgur.com/Ys6td8w.png

[vammex]

i pay $5 to everyone who can find the VSCode logo on this screen

I can't

[faraazahmad]

To be honest, the logo isn't so bad, especially with the 3D-ish effect on Mac and Linux. What's putting people off is the weird orange colour and the fact that it is similar to that of sublime. Consider changing it to blue maybe.

[vammex]

i don't understand - there are 9 signs on https://www.change.org/p/developers-bring-back-the-old-visual-studio-code-logo right now while there are almost 100 posts here. where is everybody?

[ghost]

why would the vs code developers care about some random petition? it's pretty easy to miss and it's better to keep everything centralized, it would be better if people kept upvoting the github issues instead of separating from it

[verlok]

I agree with @ratchet302 and that’s why I didn’t sign the petition :)

[vammex]

i don't understand why one interferes with another ? continue to upvote and sign the petition, it doesn't work for you together? if you don't care vs code developers' reaction why you are in this thread?

[sudopluto]

@vammex, this is an open source project, this issue in itself is a form of petition. no need for silly change.org petitions when you can make pull requests and open issues :)

[leolozes]

@isergey if you are using VS Code, chances are that you're a developer. If you are half serious, you know it's an open source project, and there's a GitHub link in the home page. You then search the issue and find it. Way easier than finding some random petition in Change.org that nobody cares about.

And we're talking about an editor icon for God sakes, not a worlwide issue. I didn't want to comment to keep the thread clean, but couldn't resist, sorry.

I think the +300 thumbs-up are enough for the developers to know there's consensus among the community about the redesign.

[isergey]

@LeoLozes the changed icon was a shock for me. I could not work half a day because of this.

[edwin-jones]

I concur - the new icon is hideous. Mostly this is because the orange color used is horrible. A more neutral tone would be far preferable, like the usual blues/purples of the visual studio brand.

[rubberduck203]

The orange is off putting. So is cutting off half the logo. The green that's being used on the insiders build is actually really nice looking, still a cool (as opposed to warm) color, and would stand out nicely in the task bar. There aren't many green icons around.

Seriously though. Close the loop. It looks ridiculous.

Developers like you live with the Visual Studio icons every day: clicking on them multiple times, staring at them side by side on the taskbar, and seeing them attached to project files. So when we update them, it’s a big deal. After all, icons matter. For pictures that are at most just under a centimeter wide on a normal display (or under half an inch, for those of you who aren’t British like me), icons are huge. They pack a lot of meaning into a small space. They offer clues as to what kind of experience you’ll have with the application the icon represents. Some icons even establish an emotional connection: they make you feel something about something.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/03/08/iterations-on-infinity/

There seems to be a huge disconnect between the purpose and the results here.

[crowna]

Orange is great! It stands out maybe a little Arabic in style, but that's not a bad thing. Blue is so Fire Fox Developer, Outlook, Skype and MS Edge...

[Matheus-de-Souza]

I was reading the commentaries on the post iterations on infinity and I found this response from the design director, John Lea.

The reason we could only use a single flat color was due to the branding guidelines. Now branding guidelines in general are useful and very much required to ensure a sense of consistency across products. A world without branding guidelines would be would be a bit of a mess, and in such a world Microsoft products would not feel like ‘Microsoft products’.

I'm losing hope that Microsoft will change this terrible icon.. 😞

[dondon2475848]

I like Blue icon! Orange icon is so ugly :disappointed:

[verlok]

Hey, Microsoft team, are you gonna do something for this after all these comments?

[vammex]

i have the only one hope that they'll not come with some philosophical ideas why orange is better than blue and other stuff

[sporto]

I don't think the orange is bad, that doesn't seem like the issue to me. Blue was nicer though. Everything else about the logo is terrible, the shape, the lack of balance, too much contrast. Doesn't look professional at all.