Chrome Changing Its Logo for First Time in 8 Years

Chrome is changing its logo for the first time since 2014, as designer Elvin Hu offered a first look at the logo’s redesign in a thread on Twitter.

The red, yellow, and green are simply flat, and the blue circle in the middle seems to be bigger and stares into your soul even more, but maybe that’s just my imagination.

Apparently, Google’s design team discovered “placing certain shades of green and red next to each other created an unpleasant color vibration.”

In order to fix this and make the icon “more accessible,” they decided to use very subtle gradients to prevent any color vibration.

If you click on the main Chrome logo, it won’t look the same across all systems either.

On ChromeOS, the logo will look more colorful 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.

Meanwhile, the Windows 10 and 11 version has a more dramatic gradient so that it fits in with the style of other Windows icons.