We hope that it's a clearer bed than what we originally started with. With respect to seeing it from afar -- the contexts in which we are using the icon is for

We hope that it's a clearer bed than what we originally started with. With respect to seeing it from afar -- the contexts in which we are using the icon is for desktop and post-PC device user interfaces. Interfaces which aren't usually used from afar. Most users who are exposed to this icon will be looking at it from just two to three feet away.