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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except that the original post was contesting that those shapes are indistinguishable from each other. My point, therefore, is that the solution offered in the post I replied to would still be indistinguishable to 300 million people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

the squares are there for comedic effect. the shapes are not actually indistinguishable. but at a glance, color is a much faster tool we use to identify these icons. so the problem here is that it takes longer for us to decipher a Google app icon, and the solution would be to differentiate the colors.

also this would help colorblind people as well, because removing unnecessarily complicated colors would make the shapes easier to identify as well.