The company has removed the shadows between the red, yellow, and green in the outer ring, while also “refining the proportions and brightening the colors.” While using “flat colors,” Google did add a “subtle gradient to the main icon to mitigate” how an “unpleasant color vibration” exists between green and red.

Google modernized the logo three years later to further that trend, and is going all the way in 2022. In 2011, the original 2008 logo was greatly flattened and no longer explicitly three-dimensional. This is meant to better “align with Google’s more modern brand expression,” with the company now optimizing the logo for each operating system. What started out as a shiny, three-dimensional emblem has been squashed down into a 2D symbol.The Google Chrome icon is in the process of being updated and modernized for the first time in eight years. There are also some new icons for the beta and developer versions of the Chrome logo, with the most dramatic change being a blueprint-style icon for the beta app on iOS.įrom 2008 until now, the Chrome logo has been getting gradually simpler. Meanwhile, the Windows 10 and 11 version has a more dramatic gradient so that it fits in with the style of other Windows icons.Īs per The Verge, the new icon can be seen if you use Chrome Canary (the developer version of Chrome), but it will start rolling out for everyone else over the next few months. On ChromeOS, the logo will look more colourful to complement the other system icons, while on macOS, the logo will have a small shadow, making it appear as if it's 'popping out' of the dock. The main Chrome logo won't look the same across all systems either.

According to The Verge, instead of incorporating shadows on the borders between each colour, essentially 'raising' them off the screen, the red, yellow, and green are now simply flat.

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