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Revert the icons to the multi-colored versions!

This is an Adobe CC wide issue but AE is where I notice it the most.

Please revert the icons to the multi-colored versions! It makes no sense to make them the same color when the "themes" break down beyond video and photo use. I used the colors to quickly locate the software I needed to open, now I have a taskbar full of purple and have to squint to tell which letters I am clicking on.

It seems like a very poor design choice that was likely made by the boardroom, not the creative team, and I beg you to change the icons back - or at least give US the option to have the multiple colors instead of mono-purple, which I'll add looks horrendous on a dark theme display.

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  • Mark Cairns commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Simple to evolve this Adobe and meet you half-way here.

    For video KEEP the Purple Square, but alter the colours of the INTERNAL LETTERS to -- white / pure yellow / light Yellow / Bee Yellow / light purple

  • Armando Vidaurri commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi, sorry. I marked this suggestion as inappropriate by mistake with my finger.. Here’s a suggestion: make it a two-clicks action to mark suggestions as inappropriate

  • Bethany Chamberlain commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes! Like Instagram lets you choose which colour/theme icon. I chose the funkiest one and now getting mixed up with messenger and Instagram because the colours are the same so goes to show how important colours are for our information processing!

  • Brian Leonard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    WTF Adobe? Let me help your stupidity in design sense. Make all the program icons the same letters too.
    Premiere Pro= Pr
    After Effects= Pr
    InDesign= Pr
    Audition= Pr
    Photoshop= Pr

    There!!! Now it makes sense.... You dumb ********.

  • Alan Trebeschi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So true... the colours now are the same for all the app... When I try to switch from an app to the other it's so confusing

  • Jeff Young commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    With the type the same color, the icons [Ae] [Me] [Au] look very similar on the black Windows 10 taskbar.

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