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Does anyone else find the app icons[0] to be absolutely hideous?

Google reskinned all of their app icons but there's no consistency. Some colors overlap with transparency (see Google Meet, Calendar) but others don't (see Maps, Play Store).

0: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/20.jp...

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And they're completely indistinguishable from each other at a glance, which is like a cardinal sin of design.

Same thing happened with the windows 11 file explorer icons. I can't tell which icon from a glance is cut, copy and paste since they all look visually the same.

It's like the same toxic UI designers bounce between Google and MSFT and Apple and destroy any semblance of usable iconography.

it's no surprise their video meet branding is going so swimmingly if you saw what they did to their other brands with the logo redesigns. They don't seem to understand the purpose of branding. You can't make individual apps part of a collective with icon themes and still retain strong brand identity among each individual app. It's like they tried to split the difference, and the result is a bunch of gibberish.

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