#my setup

admin of thisischeri, 2026

It wasn't always this way. Windows XP through 7 use rounded corners extensively, and I think they still look nice. But things have changed.

Here is a quote I found online at Designmodo that sums up industry design philosophy on the element:

As children, we were trained to stay away from knives and sharp objects because they can hurt us... Rounded corners evoke warmth and trust.

In the past I would have agreed. But over the years, I've grown to associate rounded corners, more and more, with manipulation, deceit, and control.

I don't think that rounded rectangles are a CIA conspiracy or w/e. But I do think that years of use by companies that don't trust their users—famously Apple—now mean "if a company has chosen its whole branding to say 'trust me', you probably shouldn't."

To me, sharp corners in 2025 mean one of two things about software: professional and polished, or just purely functional without care for aesthetics. Neither of those is a problem.

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