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Well now you're comparing it as part of a set of icons where homogeneity matters but that's not the fault of THIS icon.
I'm having a hard time grappling with these replies. Am I really the only one here who sees a pencil and not an abstract line?
I don't know man I think you're misunderstanding it
I see a pencil. a simplified icon of a pencil. It's going to look very similar to every other simplified icon of a pencil, so the moment another app has a similar icon, and they're grouped together in the "notes" folder as people often categorize their apps for easy finding, it's an entirely unnecessary extra mental step to figure out which one you want to open
I guess I'm just not the type of person who'd use two apps for notes?
ok, apply it to messaging or email apps, as it's very common to use more than one messaging service
if they were all made in the same simplified style, they wouldn't be differentiable at a glance
the more identifiable an icon is, the better. uniqueness is a great way to do that
No, I agree with you.
It looks like Harold’s purple crayon if it was red more than a pencil. I like it the least of the first four, but I think all of these look fine. 5 and 6 are a little busier than I’d prefer.