New in Basecamp: Improved File-type Icons

August 11 2009, 6:16pm

We just launched a brand new set of icons for the files you upload to your Basecamp projects. These icons are displayed on the files tab and messages/comments.

Some of the benefits of the new icons include:

The new icons are platform agnostic. The old icons were a combination of Windows and Mac desktop icons. We weren't technically supposed to use third party icons in our products. Now that we have our own icon set we're clean and clear.

The new icons have a consistent shape and presentation. They're all the same width and same style. The file extension is also written below. You don't have to guess what kind of file it is.

Desktop application icons often change with each new software version upgrade. By creating our own standard set of icons we don't have to update Basecamp each time a new Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word version comes out.

We hope you like these improved file-type icons. Thanks again for your continued support. We'll be rolling these new icons out to Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire shortly.

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