New Google Messages, Phone, and Contacts app icons rolling out [U] - 9to5Google

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In summation to introducing a handful of Messages features, Google is rolling retired caller icons for the SMS/RCS app, arsenic good arsenic Phone and Contacts.

Update 10/21: Google is already rolling retired the caller Messages icon with mentation messages.android_20221018_01_RC00.phone.openbeta_dynamic. It’s besides unrecorded connected Wear OS, and you tin sign-up for that beta close here.

As expected, the bluish icon is placed connected a airy inheritance that’s beauteous unremarkable. There’s nary animated splash screen, which adjacent Google Chat features, and the animation seen successful Google’s promo video does not marque an quality today.

Meanwhile, the Themed icon is amended and somewhat much recognizable adjacent with its simplified logo.

Original 10/20: These 3 icons proceed to stock the aforesaid benignant to convey that they’re portion of the aforesaid app household liable for communication. Overlapping connection bubbles is the cardinal motif present to correspond however texting (and calling) involves astatine slightest 2 participants. This is akin to the greenish Google Chat logo.

A darker bluish is utilized wherever that overlap occurs, portion determination are besides 2 different shades of lighter blues successful use. There is simply a faux consciousness of shadow-derived extent — a rarity successful modern Google iconography — arsenic a result.

In the lawsuit of the Google Messages icon (and to guarantee continuity and idiosyncratic familiarity), bluish besides represents RCS’s (Rich Communication Services) default bubble color. It’s a recognizable icon, but the overlapping portion, particularly astatine the bottom-left and upper-right, effect successful a somewhat imprecise and messy look.

Google Phone, Messages, and Contacts

Meanwhile, the caller Google Phone app icon looks rather nice, portion Contacts is straightforward enough, though the lighter shades of bluish look similar arms alternatively of what’s presumably intended (people side-by-side).

Compared to the existent icon set, these icons mightiness basal retired little if they’re placed connected a airy inheritance alternatively of acheronian blue. Overall, they’re little realistic and much stylized.

Google says these icons are meant to acceptable successful with different first-party apps and “each is designed to accommodate to Material You themes.” There’s surely the flatness and deficiency of shadows arsenic seen successful the Workspace icons. However, different examination is to the YouTube household of icons and its minimal colour palette.

The caller Google Phone, Messages, and Contacts icons are rolling retired implicit the adjacent fewer weeks.