As a vintage Mac weirdo, how am I just now finding out about Sorbet Leopard? Did everyone know this was a thing
Jonas Downey
@jonasdowney@mastodon.social
Design Manager @ Figma // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Puns always intended. he/him
October 27, 2022
OK I installed iOS 26 on my phone. I’ve concluded that the Liquid Glass idea is fundamentally impossible to get right, because the aesthetic ambitions are directly opposed to the functionality of the interface.
You can’t make elevated UI elements nearly transparent, while also keeping them readable on top of background content that can have any combination of colors.
The only way to solve this is to not do this—the UI just has to be more opaque.
