Remember when Apple bet big on the Touch Bar? Illustrator CC 2017 was one of the first apps to fully embrace it. Suddenly, you could scrub through font weights or adjust opacity with a slider on your keyboard . It was futuristic (and yes, slightly gimmicky), but for MacBook Pro users, it felt like magic.
🕰️ Throwback to 2017: Why Adobe Illustrator CC 2017 on Mac Was a Quiet Revolution adobe illustrator cc 2017 mac
Are you still running a legacy Mac (pre-Apple Silicon) and keeping 2017 alive? Or have you moved on to the new AI-powered era? Remember when Apple bet big on the Touch Bar
To the untrained eye, it was just a vector tool. But for designers on macOS Sierra and High Sierra? It was the turning point. It was futuristic (and yes, slightly gimmicky), but
Before 2017, aligning text to a vector shape was a nightmare of guesswork. This update introduced Snap to Glyph . You could finally snap a logo mark perfectly to the edge of a letter ‘P’ or the curve of an ‘S’. It turned typography into architecture. If you design logos on a Mac, you use a feature born right here.
But for a moment in time, was the perfect balance: powerful enough for pros, modern enough for Retina screens, and free of the bloat that came later.