“The goal was to create a cohesive set of icons that are bold in shape and style, yet recognizable and a little sassy where possible,” Twitter said in the thread. Two tweets from the thread make it easy to see what has changed. This one shows what they looked like then and now. The one after shows a a lot of hope in one picture.
I wasn’t a big fan in the beginning, but I’m starting to get more and more involved. (My favorite is the retweet button.) Twitter will make the new icons available to everyone on the web, iOS and Android in the coming days, spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo said in an email to The edge. You may already have them; for me, they appeared on the web and in the iOS app last night while writing this article.
The changes follow the company’s new visual design language it introduced in August 2021, including the rollout of the Chirp font in the app.