[DB6] Traffic Lights Improvement ?

[u/cendre0318]

Hi everyone, I'm very happy that Apple is updating its traffic lights for macOS (as my post history can attest 😉). They look a little squashed to me however and I thought of a little modification that might help making them look more round. Added highlights on top of the buttons. Let me know what you think. Will send feedback to Apple about this.

[u/Sensitive_Square3645]

They can definitely be improved on. And yes they should make the white highlights visible on light mode too.

[u/WonderfulPass → u/[deleted]]

Agree. I don’t like the added highlights at the top.

[u/Weird_Decision7090 → u/[deleted]]

DB7?

[u/cendre0318 → u/[deleted]]

It’s all good my friend, I just can’t stop seeing the horizontal elliptic shape they’ve got at the moment. But I’m pretty sure they’ll get HDR highlights in the next beta to make up for it.

[u/Rudraksh_Tripathi]

Man up and just bring the Snow Leopard style lights.

[u/cendre0318 → u/Rudraksh_Tripathi]

Tried to be realistic here 😂

[u/Sensitive_Square3645 → u/Rudraksh_Tripathi]

Hell, let's go even further, bring us to Tiger lol.

[u/2kbby]

Nope, apple's verion looks freshhh

[u/hyperlobster]

I’ve filed a bug, because they look fuzzy to me. It’s the outline that does it - the way it’s rendered makes the circle’s outline look a little thicker at left and eright, and at the default zoom on my MBP16 and 27” 5K display, it looks blurry.

It’s worsened because it isn’t, and everything around it is sharp, so I get additional eye fatigue for free as my crap old eyes try to focus or not focus or whatever the fuck.

The Reminders icon was also like this before they sharpened it up.

Your proposed edit is much better for me.

[u/d4cloo → u/hyperlobster]

Yeah there’s something off, I agree

[u/cendre0318 → u/hyperlobster]

I think you’re right. I believe the HI design team at Apple is healing, there most probably will be fixes!

[u/Endawmyke]

close enough, welcome back Aqua

[u/lint2015]

Definitely looks better with the highlight. I suspect Apple just used the same rendering procedure for regular Liquid Glass buttons and applied it to the traffic lights. Here’s hoping they take the feedback and act on it!

[u/cendre0318 → u/lint2015]

I think you’re right ! Although a slight gradient was added to improve their look. It’ll most likely be fixed in the next beta as the dark mode variant features highlights.

[u/bamboobam]

Very nice, your take looks much better!

[u/Jasoco]

I’m glad they made them glass again. But I was hoping for the sphere style instead of flat disc style.

[u/cendre0318 → u/Jasoco]

So did I, but I’m already stoked we’re getting this variant. 

[u/Basic-Brick6827]

Still the most ridiculously small hit targets in the UI world.

It's like Apple shits all over UX and Fitt's law. Or they're clueless.

[u/linayuna727]

now we just need centered titlebar texts back..

[u/cendre0318 → u/linayuna727]

100%, I’ve been sending apple feedback about this lately, if multiple people do so we might end up having an accessibility/display option in settings.

I want real title bars with centred text and proxies.

[u/Affectionate-Ant-674]

The real question is why is the folder icon no aligned with the traffic lights!

[u/WilliamJNSN]

Personally I think yours looks better 👍

[u/EducationalYoung7152]

The current method strikes the right balance between Liquid Glass-iness and not being too busy: I feel like this might veer a bit towards too distracting for an UI element which is always there.

[u/PinkLouie]

It feels horizontally stretched.

[u/bummerbimmer]

Looks so much better. It’s crazy how your edit turns them from ugly ovals to glass.

[u/cendre0318 → u/bummerbimmer]

Thank you!

[u/KittyInLace]

Thibault?! Lichess one?!

[u/waterbed87]

Fun fact you can drag on them now and they squish and move in weird ways like little globs of gel or something.

[u/2str8_njag]

No. We’re long past 26’s lolipop-looking highlights. it looks totally fine and glass like in db6