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Originally Posted by Toadling

PS - iOS app icons are all the same shape and size as well, yet users don't seem to have trouble telling them apart, do they?

Right, and you'll also notice that app icons are 48x48 pixels, and the OF icons are 25x25 pixels*. So app icons have nearly four times the area that's allotted to OF icons. That's four times the number of pixels usable for color and contrast that we don't have here.

And in the tiny space the OF icons do have, they've chosen a medium grey background -- you couldn't find a color that hampers contrast more if you tried, could you?

* Pixel dimensions on the new "retina display" iPhone would be higher, but the same proportions apply.