We want our brand to convey the same level of care. “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. “You might ask, ‘why bother with something so subtle?’” Hue continues. On Chrome OS, the team used brighter colors without gradients to match that system. The Chrome icon now takes steps to blend in with UI design cues on the many operating systems its available. On Windows 10 and 11, the icon will have “an obviously gradated look,” letting it look more natural on those systems. Hu says that the icon was also customized for each platform. Google found, for example, “that placing certain shades of green and red next to each other created an unpleasant color vibration, so introduced a very subtle gradient to the main icon to mitigate that, making the icon more accessible.”

The most obvious difference, I guess, is the larger blue circle at the center.

This, he says, aligns the icon with Google’s latest and modern “brand expression.” Hu says that his team simplified the main brand icon by removing the shadows, refining the proportions, and brightening the colors. But there are, in fact, several differences. Most people probably wouldn’t even notice the change. The new icons will start to appear across your devices soon.” “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 tweeted. For the first time in eight years, Google is changing the icon for Chrome, its flagship web browser.

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