App Icon Conventions From the Original Macintosh

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By John GruberJul 8, 2026, 10:36 am96 pts
Dr. Drang, in a post replete with examples of icons of popular apps from the original Macintosh, in their one-bit glory: You can see that Apple liked the idea of app icons being a tilted rectangle with some image inside the rectangle to indicate what the app did. The hand was Apple’s way of telling you that…

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