


On macOS, for instance, the symbol will look more three-dimensional. That’s because Hu says Google spent time customizing the icon to make it more at home in every operating system where you can download Chrome. Either way, the result of the change is an icon that is “more accessible.”ĭepending on where you use Chrome, you’ll see additional subtle changes. You can see a more apparent example of the phenomenon Hu talks about on this website. Hu says the company found that certain shades of those two colors produced an “unpleasant color vibration” when placed next to one another. But the most impactful change the company introduced is that it added subtle gradients to the green and red segments of the icon. It also changed the proportions of the symbol while brightening up the individual colors that make it up. If you look carefully, you’ll notice Google removed the shadows that were part of the icon, opting for a more flat design that’s in line with the company’s other products. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.

We want our brand to convey the same level of care,” he said.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. so subtle?” We tailor Chrome’s experience to each OS, with features like Native Window Occlusion on Windows, day-one M1 support on macOS, Widgets on iOS/Android, and Material You on Android. All these changes, Hu said, are being introduced to "align with Google's more modern brand expression. While it uses brighter colours and no extra gradients on ChromeOS, the beta app on iOS will have a blueprint-like icon as a nod to Apple’s developer-focused apps, and the Stable app icon will have new proportions on the tile. On macOS, the icon will have a 3D design similar to Apple system apps. For Windows 10 and 11, Chrome’s icon will have a gradated look that fuses with other icons in the taskbar. Another change that the company has introduced is the OS-specific customizations for Windows, Mac and iOS devices. “We simplified the main brand icon by removing the shadows, refining the proportions and brightening the colours, to align with Google's more modern brand expression,” he further added. The new icons will start to appear across your devices soon,” he wrote in a tweet. Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the first time in 8 years. “Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today. Chrome designer Elvin Hu detailed out the changes in the browser’s logo in a series of tweets. Since then, design and basic elements of the logo have remained changed with timely changes in 20. Also, the new icon has no shadows like the previous one. The logo (only if you look closely) seems to have brighter colours and a larger blue circle at the centre. Google Chrome has got a new logo after 8 years.
