Why every app icon looks the same now

Flat, rounded, gradient, repeat.

Nobody asked for this, and yet here we are. Posting this so future us can find it again. It started as a joke and then it got out of hand.

The short version

• We tried to find the original source and came up empty.
• File this under things you did not know you needed.
• We tried to find the original source and came up empty.

It started as a joke and then it got out of hand.

File this under things you did not know you needed. There is a lesson here, but we are not sure what it is. File this under things you did not know you needed. Watch it twice and you will catch something new.