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Icons for some of Google’s most popular services are set to be overhauled soon, according to a new leak. Late last year, Google introduced a gradient-focused redesign for apps like Maps and Photos, and now it’s reportedly coming to 13 other services.
Sources speaking to 9to5Google have shared a look at the upcoming design changes for Calendar, Chat, Docs, Drive, Forms, Gmail, Keep, Meet, Sheets, Sites, Slides, Tasks, and Voice icons.
Each new logo looks more vibrant than previous options, bringing gradients that transition to a different color throughout most of the logos. That’s a new design choice for Google, with 9to5Google reporting that sources say it's being internally discussed as a way to show how each app features AI-powered integrations.
The most complete redesign is the new Google Chat icon, which moves from a four-color chat bubble to a more rounded, green bubble with a smiling mouth.
Some popular apps will also use fewer colors, such as Google Meet and Calendar, which lose their multi-colored designs. The Drive logo has also been reduced to three colors of green, blue, and yellow by losing its red accent.
Docs, Sheets, and Slides look similar to what you've seen before, with redesigned inner icons that retain their distinctive colors. Sheets and Slides have also been rotated to landscape orientation, which makes sense since most projects in each piece of software are viewed that way.
The Gmail logo redesign is relatively lightweight, continuing to use all three colors but with the left-hand side now all in red, gently transitioning into yellow, then green, and finally blue. It looks slightly more like a physical letter than the other recent designs do, too.
We don’t yet know when these will appear on services, or whether this will actually happen. This is a leak, but the sources appear reliable, which may mean we'll see it sooner rather than later.