So I was looking at the Creator Studio icons again—don't ask why—and suddenly I noticed something. But no. Surely it couldn't be.

But it is. The Keynote icon went from a six-part pie chart to a two-part pie chart, and they managed to off-center the chart's centerline in the process. 🙃

It's a good thing quality design and attention to detail aren't Apple's entire brand, or this might be kind of embarrassing.

The Keynote 14.4 icon is open in Pixelmator. Guidelines have been added showing the horizontal and vertical centerlines of the image. The vertical guideline cuts directly through the center of the pie chart on the lectern, pixel-perfect.A screenshot of the Creator Studio Keynote icon is open in Pixelmator. Guidelines have been added showing the horizontal and vertical centerlines of the image. The vertical guideline cuts noticeably to the left of the centerline of the pie chart, emphasizing the fact that no effort whatsoever was made to make it look like a real, functional pie chart that actually represented something.

While I'm here, can we just look at the Keynote icons for a second?

The oldest is clearly a lectern. The ionic column feels a bit weird, but you can easily imagine an object like this existing, and an image search for "wooden lectern" turns up some similar-ish real-world things.

The second is also clearly a lectern. Much more modern, perspective and proportions a bit off, and it's stuck in a blue squircle void, but again: real-ish.

The third is… a holographic blue cafeteria table? IDEK.

All three Keynote icons side by side.An image showing a real traditional-looking wooden lectern featuring a kind of column, although not exactly like the one rendered in the old icon.An image showing a clear-plastic-topped lectern with a round metal base and metal support, standing next to a similarly-styled table. Again, it doesn't exactly match the lectern shown in the second lectern, but it's clearly similar and actually exists.An image of the newest Keynote icon cropped to stand on its own and with the note "???" added in Helvetica just above the icon, as if to convey "how would one even do an image search for a holographic blue nightmare cafeteria table like this?".
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