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Why has the Acrobat DC Pro Icon has changed from red to black?

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August 17, 2020
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Yesterday, the Adobe Acrobat DC Pro icon in my Mac desktop dock and in all pdfs in Finder has changed from red to black. Was this supposed to happen?

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Correct answer Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com

It's a design change throughout Adobe's programs, not just Acrobat.

Poorly tested by the GUI design team; on Windows, the icon's black square melds into the default black background color of the Windows Task Bar. The Acrobat icon, especially, is nearly invisible on a high-resolution monitor. Just what users need: an invisible user interface!

This screen cap shows (from left to right), the new icons for Acrobat, InDesign, and Photoshop, and the previous icon for Photoshop on the far right.

Good example of what NOT to do to a user interface!

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defaulti5rzz2eu5pcr

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why did Adobe acrobat change there logo from black to the acrobat reader logo loke the red

artr88757074

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How do I fix it????

artr88757074

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Figured it out, right click on the Task Bar icon, right click on Properties, Change Icon, select your icon, be sure to click Apply, so you are in admin mode. Done!

JoshuaLisciarelli

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You're a real one for coming back and sharing the answer to your question on this thread. Thank you. You saved me and probably a couple of other peeps the trouble of researching and finding the answer.

davidf26144193

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Looks great on a Mac. That generic red was lost in a sea of other bright icons, now the black icon is easy to spot.

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lanceo21900549

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I Just hope this isnt a vain attempt at BLM, reverse racism fixes nothing.
If this is, I will cancel my subscriptions and go with Googles version !

davidf26144193

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lanceo21900549

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is this a personal threat to kill me? ?

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lanceo21900549

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So how do I fix it ?
Thank you in advance

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IngeniousJenny

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It's so irritating. I wasted valuable time trying to find the red icon for the app on my taskbar and only noticed the black icon the next day, as it blends into the background. I have SOOO many years of user expectation built around that red!

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It's just more virtue signalling that all the UI developers are doing to show solidarity with the latest fad. If they really cared they'd shut down the largest killer of black people in America, every single Planned Parenthood; the real systemic killer of blacks.

davidf26144193

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SolomonA

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Agree, this is awful. When I first updated I thought the icon wasn't rendering correctly and I dug around to see why. I don't remember seeing any notification this was going to happen, I think any change where it makes it users have to dig to find out why is not a good update. If I missed something saying this is turning to black, well, then that's on me.

But overall, in my professional design opinion, this is a bad bad change.