This morning I ran across the image above and I think it’s the MacOS Platinum design? I like it. I really, really like it. Since macOS 26 saw the light of day and folks have been bagging on Liquid Glass I’ve been looking at older Mac UIs for something pleasing to my eye. Not that I hate Liquid Glass, I don’t. It’s fine.
When I see screenshots of Platinum I keep thinking “I wish Apple would take Platinum as a starting point and re-imagine it for today.”
Then I ran across this screenshot from MacOS X Lion. It kind of looks like Platinum re-imagined. 😳
