Extremely niche pet peeve: inconsistent light sources for cast shadows in Android iconspic.twitter.com/4h8DHLwpj9
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Almost every single Google-made app icon has its own shadow pattern. Long, short, soft, hard, leftwards, rightwards, symmetrical (Chrome), no shadows at all, no cast shadow but custom-direction shadows in the central object (Gmail), etc.
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I want to do the Ballmer dance, but instead of yelling DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS I will yell STANDARDIZATION, STANDARDIZATION, STANDARDIZATION
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I know right?!
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The conspiracy theorists would suggest its based on the position of the sun in Mountain View when the app was released, kinda similar to apple’s choice for calendar icon. But ofc this is ridiculous.
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When I was doing a lot of work on the FOSS 3D application K-3D we contemplated defining the icons as 3d geometry then rendering a set as per the user's requirements. Google could make that happen, WebGL, pre-rasterized for speed if required?
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If it doesn't cast a shadow, is it really there?
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Perhaps there is a hidden. astrological meaning. Seems like a great premise for a conspiracy theory video on YouTube
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