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Agreed, color is the most immediately recognizable thing about an object and this is just as bad as when Lion washed out the folder colors. It looks more minimalist/modern but is less usable. Even low-saturation colors would be nice. You could do this with font icons just by printing them in slightly different colors (like a terminal, sigh).

Edit: I could be nuts, but they are printing in slightly different colors now, whereas just an hour ago they were all gray. Somebody at github just made my day.

Interesting...the folders and files are now different colors for me. Different than when I first left this comment. Still not high enough contrast IMO, but a step in the right direction.

Bring back the yellow folder icons!

Also, the entire design has terrible contrast. It's just dark on dark on dark. And every color has been stripped out.

Ugh.

I agree also. Just too little contrast and color... I like the icons on buttons etc, but not for the file browser or the activity feed icons.

Font icons. I really don't see the appeal. They seem guaranteed to get this comment, no matter how good at icons you are.