Updating Retcon’s icon for Tahoe

Icon design is a surprisingly pragmatic process. It’s all about finding concrete solutions, to issues you encounter while trying to reach specific goals. (and also you want to make things very pretty)

Updating Retcon’s icon for macOS 26 Tahoe involved a lot of trial and error, a lot of resolving (and creating) problems. So I recorded this short tour of some of the versions the icon went through, and the reasoning for everything. Give it a watch!

If you enjoy this walkthrough, you’ll also like reading about the making of the original icon.