TextWrangler got update to 2.3. I haven’t been using it for long, but I did notice an icon change.
When TextWrangler first shipped for Mac OS X, it looked pretty good. It wasn’t bad compared to most applications, but looked ugly compared to Apple’s recent icons.
There’s a few things I don’t like about this icon, but they’re mostly related to it looking out of focus and drab. I’ve often wondered if it started out at 32×32 and was scaled up and had a quick fix applied to it rather than a redesign.
TextWrangler’s icon has been looking increasingly out of date for the last few years. The new icon doesn’t look so different that it can’t be recognized, but it brings the icon up-to-date:
I’m not overly fond of the jaunty angle it’s set at, but that seems pretty common these days. However, the drabness and bluriness is gone, replaced with vivid (but not distracting) colours. The rope in particular… well, in previous versions I wasn’t completely sure it was a rope. Sometimes I wondered if it was actually mango liquorice1.
- Good stuff, that. In fact, I think I’ll pick up a bag later. [↩]