New VS Code icon is ugly!

[lipstick-turtleback]

Can we return previous app icon or draw a new one?

It really looks bad. https://code.visualstudio.com/images/1_17_windows-stable-orange.png

[sommerper]

This makes it hard to distinguish between Sublime and VSC when alt tabbing. Please change to blue again. Thanks.

[joshmanders]

You can change it to whatever you want. I went nostalgic.

[sepjani]

for windows users, most easy way to change to old one

[haskellcamargo]

The truth has been spoken

[pohmelie]

This issue in top3 by likes. And it is only 9 days old. :laughing:

[CaptainN]

I don't think the color is the primary problem (though it's clearly brown on my screen, not orange). I think the forms are too complex, and not very distinctive. It makes it a visual mess full of noise, with very little signal. The old angular skewed infinity sign wasn't my favorite either, but it was at least a recognizable (single) mark.

[rogerlopz]

I also think the new icon is ugly and a mess to look at.

[arosas]

I wonder if anyone that has the old blue icon to push it up and make a pull request, use the powers of contribution to resolve this trivial bug.

[chamini2]

I also think the previous icon was more beautiful.

[jamesmontemagno]

I love the icon! And the color. Feels like a family of products and it has its own identity now in my app drawer.

[IvanAlekseev]

I can't imagine something worse! Please change it back

[josephworks]

looks like trump kinda...

[WaveF]

@chinghanho It's more like the chinese word "反" with some rotation, which make my friends think it means anti chinese government :p just a joke

[jch254]

So much hate for the VS Code icon Microsoft Visual Studio but remember it is easy to replace with a friend

[LittleFee]

Ugly looking,both color and shape.

[tdhatcher]

I installed VS Code on a new machine and .... uck. I thought "this looks like what?" I like the old one. This one just blends in on the toolbar

[zhaopengme]

Bad design

[raghav710]

I understand that a graphic designer might have spent hours creating these new icons and the slanted one on mac also looks exciting. Also since I usually have Visual studio and VS code together on my taskbar (dont ask why!) the new icon might provide some visual differentiation. But can you please (pretty please) bring back the blue color :)

[krisbox-git]

Orange!! It is for Halloween?! Loved previous magnificent blue logo for my favorite tool! Just after seeing this horrible thing, I directly searched for "ugly vscode logo" and I got this thread! 🤣

And also 刈る (karu) means 'to mow' in Japanese! hahahahaha

[cedvdb]

What do we want ? We want it blue! When do we want it ? Now !

[windy32]

The icon by James Gilyead also looks fine

[SunnerLi]

See the changing a few days ago. But I still cannot get used to this icon...

[lhazell]

I was apprehensive about trusting Microsoft with something as essential as a code editor, and this is why: In the world of simple code editors, less is always more.

It's weird to think that this concept would transfer to something as basic as the icon, but this new one seems to be trying too hard and doing too much, and in so breaking the first rule of text editors.

Please change it back. Or make it simple.

[dskaiser82]

Agree with most here. The prior Blue Logo was much more pleasing to the eye

[anasufovic]

I was wondering where VS code went on my machine. But yeah, this icon looks too much like the "Get Office" icon. I'd change it back to a blue based icon without that 3D box offset.

[dewilcox]

The new icon is too busy, with the open infinity symbol hiding behind the stylized border. I agree with @lhazell: less is more.

[mermaid]

I've made a shell script for macOS that will change it back if anyone is interested in it https://github.com/mermaid/vscode-beautifier

Hopefully they'll work on it more and get a better looking icon, but until then I'll just keep changing it back

[azzgo]

@mermaid awesome work man! My desktop looks better again.

[kruncher]

This triggers some sort of OCD........ it's the only icon without a blue background :scream:

[anatoly314]

Changing manually to old icon as a temporary solution. Developers, please put your ego aside and revert to old icon, it's much visible than new one.

[robhaswell]

Changing manually to old icon as a temporary solution

Very temporary, the new update reverted my change on OSX.

[dherges]

Please keep the new icon! I am already used to it and I do not want to re-adjust again! :sunglasses:

[lipstick-turtleback]

They have just released version 1.17.2 without fix for icon. Looks like it's time to switch back to atom.io...

[yehia2amer]

Changing the Icon manually in windows is a little bit tricky than Mac, but the steps are below anyway

1. Download old icons from Here
2. Open Resource Hacker
3. Click Open & Choose

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\code.exe"

4. Right Click on icon ---> Replace icon -- > Open file with new icon..
5. Choose icon "code_file.ico" Provided & Save
6. Go to

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\resources\app\resources\win32"

7. Replace images with the ones provided at win32 folder !
8. Rebuild icon cash using the below command:

Windows 7: ie4uinit.exe -ClearIconCache Windows 10: ie4uinit.exe -show

Voila!

[yehia2amer]

@ruzhovt unfortunately!

[mrchief]

The new icon is fine. Stop wasting yours and the team's time and get back to doing real work! :stuck_out_tongue:

[laurence-trippen]

The previous icon was better. I wish we can get the old back. ;-)

[mvasilkov]

@mrchief no it's not. As evidenced by this very thread, the new icon is anything but "fine".

Mocrosoft please fix.

[BeyondAntares]

DanielRios549 If you use Linux, the Paper Icon Theme has an icon very similar (if not identical), as the old one

I really like the Linux paper icon for VSCODE. Anyone know where I can find a *.png file for it?

Also, for those interested, you can convert any .png file into an .ico file using: http://convertico.com/ then right clicking on the icon and selecting "New Icon" then navigating to your new ico file.

[kruncher]

Fwiw; I like the icon on OS X.

[pohmelie]

For ubuntu users, you can divert new icon, copy old one and updates will not rewrite classic blue infinity icon. :tada:

sudo dpkg-divert --local --divert /usr/share/code/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png.ugly --rename /usr/share/code/resources/app/resources/linux/code.png

1.16.1 code.png:

edit:

• add missed --local flag.

[usernamehw]

[akras14]

Lol, here is another good one: https://mobile.twitter.com/dvdsgl/status/920688701348372480

Guys, apologies for the fish shape – I thought we were doing an icon for "VS Cod" – must have lost an 'e' somewhere!

[Leedehai]

How to get rid of the orange icon in the tab of the welcome page?

[vikas-0]

@Leedehai keep posting here so that Microsoft could notice it and revert icon.

[bradenericson]

Hey not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I really liked the blue icon. Just wanted to let everyone know 👍

[andersarpi]

Meh. I kinda like it.

[bournerj]

+1 for the old, blue icon.

Orange = Sublime rip off.

New icon looks too Office-y. VS Code's big initial draw was that it didn't look like MS made it.

[Winns]

Fix for windows users.

1. Grab this image or any other you like.
2. Convert it to .ico (ICO for Windows 7, Windows 8, Vista and XP).
3. Grab Resource Hacker and replace icon of C:\Program Files\Microsoft VS Code\Code.exe file.

[Aemony]

I don't like the new icon. At all.