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		didgeoridoo on Oct 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making iOS 7 squircles using CSS3 Very nice effect, but there's nothing squircley (?) about iOS 7 icons -- they're just squares with [more gradually] rounded corners. Edit: inserted bracketed qualifier after reading cheeaun's article.

taspeotis on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

Yeah I'm looking at my app icons and they're squares with rounded corners [1].

Not sure if the author is lumping in iOS 7 for clicks or if he's got some fancy European version of iOS.

[1] http://ua-mac.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/iOS-7-Styled-Ap... (hope this isn't someone recreating it...)

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