Prepare yourselves, the icon set for all of your most used Google apps will soon change to a much more colorful design. There’s actually a lot more to this story, but for most of you, that’s the takeaway.
The rest of the story is that Google has renamed G Suite to Google Workplace. Workplace, for those not familiar, is Google’s paid suite of Google apps that companies use as the productivity suite for their employees. That means Gmail with a custom domain, admin controls over the features you have access to in apps like Calendar or Drive, etc.
With this name change, which is a much better name to explain their paid services than G Suite was, Google is trying to bring “everything you need to get anything done, now in one place.” Well, that’s the new slogan for Workplace, anyways.
In the near future, Google plans to issue a bunch of new features too (outside of the new Gmail we got a few months back), with things like:
- Chat: dynamically create and collaborate on a document with guests in a Chat room
- Docs, Sheets, Slides: preview a linked file without having to open a new tab
- Meet: Meet picture-in-picture in Docs, Sheets, and Slides
Cool, right?
New Google icons
All of that paid stuff aside, let’s get back to icons. Yes, with this Workplace name change you will all get fancy new icons that are very much inspired by the colors of Google. Below, you can see the new Gmail icon, as well as those for Drive, Calendar, Meet, and Docs. Sheets and Slides will be blessed as well. Google says to expect them all in the “coming weeks,” probably as a slow, always-frustrating, rollout.
Alright, that’s it.
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Honestly if I wanted to just randomly throw down a big 64-capacity Crayola crayon box, and then just randomly select colors from the stash, I’d end up with these colors to these logos. I personally think these logos as A**, look way to similar and are hard to distinguish. In addition — yea the name change — who cares other than confuse people. Or—-maybe they will discontinue the entire Suite/Workplace/(future 3 more name changes in the future) next year. Never know with Google. Honestly their product offering this time around looks a lot like Nextcloud, and Nextcloud has actually a little bit more features including photo share — which didn’t Google have something like that before they like rebranded it and then dropped features?
They need to hire actual marketing people to think of these things before they release a product. It’s like the developers came up with a name, it stuck, and then someone else in the company decided it should probably be called something else, and the dev’s were like, “F-it, lets just go with that. That sounds better than the half-a**ed thing we came up with.”
So sometime between now and proton decay they will be rolling out.
Typical google.
I just threw up in my mouth
Google must have hired a bunch of new managers and developers and they all like let’s change icons so we can be us and put our stamp on Google!
As a long time G Suite user, I feel like this is only going to get to me… in the next decade.
I am soooooo sick of Google renaming everything… Trying to hold a conversation with someone, especially with people at work, (I work in Technology at at School) is confusing to say the least. Not for me but for them. ugh…
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Each individual app hasn’t been renamed this time around. Only the suite right? Since when have you referred to the google office suite as a whole? If so, saying workplace is probably easier.
Horrible and confusingly similar
I love the colors!