Bulia Byak wrote:

But the old set copes much better with color thanks to its strong, graphic black outline. It's the outline that holds them together graphically, color is just a decoration. With the anemic outline-less Tango ones, color indeed mostly fails. There's nothing to hang that color on, basically :)

... thanks to it's strong, graphic outline that isn't even present in every icon. Some have single black oultine, others have a second inset line (tweak took), others have no outline (gradient tool), others have multiple outlines (zoom tool). The black outline ends up disappearing in black/dark themes, so it's not usable without a light outline for strokes (bezier and freehand drawing tools). The oficial icon lacks consistency. It looks unfinished because too much icons look too different in style than the rest. If somebody takes the current oficial set and makes it more normalized, I bet that people who want Tangos won't be so against the current set. I'm not a Tango zealot. I find it better than the current set and I have my arguments to think that it would be better to put them as default. But i'm not against improving the current one, at all.

Gez