This new design is not a very big overhaul, but they are changing their logo for the first time since 2014. There is not much of a difference from the older logo to the newer one, but if you observe it close enough you will be able to see what’s new. Elvin Hu, a Google Chrome designer, gave the first look for the Google Chrome logo redesign on a Twitter thread.

In this new design, instead of incorporating shadows like the previous one (Which gave it a kind of a 3D feel, This new logo Is a lot more vibrant In terms of the colors and it is totally flat. Just getting rid of the older shadows. The circle in the middle seems to be a bit bigger too.

Elvin Hu explained on his thread that the design team over at Google discovered an unpleasant color vibration when they placed certain shades of green and red next to each other. To fix this and make the icon more accessible, they did use very few subtle gradients, getting rid of the color vibration that was caused before.

Although the main Chrome logo that you normally click on to access the web won’t look the same across every system. On Chrome OS, the logo will be more colorful to complement the other icons. The Mac OS logo will have a little shadow like the previous one. On Windows devices, it will have a more dramatic gradient so that it fits in with this style of other icons on Windows. He will also say that you will see the icon now when you use Chrome Canary, the developer version of Chrome.

All the way back from 2008 till now, this Chrome logo has been gradually getting even simpler with time. What started out as a 3D logo is now a 2D symbol. This is not just the case with Chrome, there are more other companies doing the same thing, we saw with the entirety of the Apple logo. We did see it on Windows. Every operating system or any UI element is getting 2D and flatter by the day. Even our logo is totally flat to fit in with all of the other UI elements on your PC or phone. It’s a design trend and we don’t think that is going to be changing anytime soon.