Fedule

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Custom icons for various Creator Studio apps. They still have some abstraction but show recognisably detailed objects. Pages is clearly a (good) pen. Pixelmator is clearly a brush and (colourful) paint. Motion is clearly a gyroscope. Mainstage is clearly a lead guitarist performing on stage. Etc.
heliographe.studio: "If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design" The icons lined up in reverse chronological order shift from a pencil-shaped blob, through to detailed drawings of a pencil on a page, ending with a really nice icon showing a fountain pen and ink pot
Apple's Creator Studio and iWork app icons before and after Liquid Glass. The old icons were blunt but unmistakeably depict objects related to their function. The new ones are blobs that vaguely resemble objects.
The icons are still distinct and discernible in monochrome even if some details are lost. I think they are also nicer and more readable in monochrome than they are with coloured icons inside black squares.
Apple's dark mode app icons don't look bad on their own but having a collection of black squares looks monotonous even when those black squares contain distinct things.
Apple's icons for Maps, Passwords, Weather, Wallet, Apple Store, Files, Books, Stocks and Camera are examples of icons that keep to the Liquid Glass aesthetic while still looking enough like their real world basis to evoke them. EG, the Passwords icon is clearly a set of three keys that even all look different.
Apple's liquid glass app icon for Pages is an abstract monochrome blob that vaguely resembles a pencil drawing a line but you wouldn't know that's what it was if this was your first time seeing it and you didn't have this alt text. It looks awful. Meanwhile, their icon for Preview shows a fully detailed and coloured magnifying glass while still holding true to the liquid glass aesthetic and having a restrained colour palette. It looks nice.
Manfred von Karma in Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney, telling the offscreen Judge 'You will slam down your gavel and say the word "guilty." That is your role!'
a party member in Demonschool tells Faye that "we have to find Faye"