The Chrome icon on macOS has colorful ribbons for the Beta and Dev builds, while the icon looks three-dimensional overall. 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. The designer behind the icon, Elvin, took to Twitter to explain that “we wanted our brand to convey the same level of care” as OS developers take in their offerings. The most significant change is that Google has now made OS-specific tweaks. The proportions of the Chrome icon have been refined, and the colors have been brightened a tad bit. The company also has a slight gradient to the main icon because the transition from green to red was jarring - “unpleasant color vibration” in design speak. The change in 2022 has removed the shadows in the outer ring of red, yellow, and green colors, creating a flat icon. Google’s last significant change to the Chrome icon was in 2011, when it flattened the 3D logo. The company has started rolling out a minor change, optimizing the icon for various operating systems such as macOS and Windows. Google has tweaked it slightly over the years but left it untouched since 2014. The Chrome icon has become an iconic symbol by itself.

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