#Interarchy for mac mac os#

Besides the shadow at the bottom, I think it looks pretty damn good. Here’s the brown Interarchy icon, at full size. The silver one just looks to soft and fuzzy to me. Well, the brown one seemed to have a size of 512px wide/high, while the silver one was only 128px wide/high. I thought I should blow them up and see how they look. I was still disturbed by the new icon… so much so, that I am actually using the old one on my copy of Interarchy. Still, progress marches on, and the icon changed. I’ve got a lot more shiny looking white or silver icons than I do brown ones. I know brown probably isn’t hip in the shiny Apple/OS X world, but honestly the brown one stands out much more for me. It just doesn’t look as clear and sharp as the brown one. It’s still a filing cabinet, but I think it loses something. After installing Interarchy 9 I got the silvery icon on the right. At first I thought it was because of the similarities to the old Anarchie icon, but then more I think about it, I think it’s just a well designed icon. On the left is the old brown Interarchy icon. Ahhh, icons were much simpler back then…. I’ve blow it up here for you to see the pixels.

#Interarchy for mac mac os#

The small one on the left was all you’d ever see in the Finder, as classic Mac OS didn’t scale up the size of icons at all. Interarchy was originally called “Anarchie” and this was the icon under classic Mac OS. People seemed to enjoy my post Twitter Apps Reviewed where I rated applications based on their icons, and this go-around we’re looking at Interarchy, a Mac file transfer application I’ve been using for many years.