Google is rolling out its redesigned Workspace app icons

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FollowSee All NewsGoogle is rolling out its redesigned Workspace app iconsThe new designs feature soft color gradients, rounded corners, and overhauled icon shapes. The new designs feature soft color gradients, rounded corners, and overhauled icon shapes. by Stevie Bonifield Stevie BonifieldNews WriterPosts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.

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It’s not just you — the Google Workspace apps are getting a new look. The redesigned app icons, leaked last month, are now rolling out widely, as we started noticing this morning. Users with the redesigned icons will notice they now have a gradient look that fades from lighter to darker shades, rather than being the same flat tone throughout, similar to the redesigned Google logo that launched a year ago.

Image: The VergeSome of the icons switched from a rainbow design to a single color, like Google Chat, Meet, and Calendar, which could help all of the icons stand out a bit more from one another — or make them harder to recognize. Others haven’t changed as much, as 9to5Google notes, like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, which have the same colors and general approach. As one Reddit user pointed out, though, the Sheets and Slides icons were switched to landscape mode, which is also how most people use both of those apps.

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Image: 9to5GoogleThe Google Drive icon also got a significant overhaul with rounded corners (and it lost the spot of red it had in the bottom right corner). A few also lost the borders around them, like Google Keep, which is now just a yellow light bulb, rather than a bulb on a yellow rectangle. As someone who frequently uses Keep, it’s going to take me a while to get used to spotting a totally different icon shape, although I like the overall look of the new one.

I also appreciate the cleaner look of the Gmail icon, although it hasn’t changed too much compared to the old version. The new icons are arriving right before Google I/O kicks off on Tuesday, where Google could announce even more visual changes to its ecosystem. Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.