The broader developer tool initiative for new branding icons began back in March, Dias said, noting that "we had to work within a set of 'challenging' corporate branding guidelines." The Previous VS Code Icon (source: Microsoft). If nothing else, this whole icon-change saga provides interesting insights into the decision-making processes at large companies, even over something as seemingly insignificant as the appearance of a tiny icon that might measure just 32x32 pixels or even 16x16. We're changing the orange icon to blue for Stable and keeping green for Insiders. It has been very helpful, painful, and entertaining all at the same time. Yesterday, while apologizing for the delay in response, Chris Dias, a Microsoft group program manager, related " The Icon Journey" and announced this TL DR:.On GitHub issues, coding forums, article comments, blog posts, Twitter feeds and more, coders aired their feelings on the new design, with a negative-vs.-positive ratio that I would guess to be around 95:5.The negative feedback started immediately, proving once again how finicky developers can be about the UI of their favorite tools.Microsoft in August floated some new designs for the VS Code icons in the midst of a broader developer tools initiative at the company.Stay tuned for the coming "feedback" on that. Sans the color reversal, however, the new design remains in place. Citing "passionate feedback" from developers (some called it "backlash") that was "very helpful, painful, and entertaining all at the same time," Microsoft reversed its decision to change the color of its icons for the Visual Studio Code editor.
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