Google's much-improved app icons are rolling out now

Key points

• About five years ago, Google redesigned the icons for most of its apps and services, including widely-used tools like Drive, Meet, Calendar and so on.
• The internet's response was not positive, and with good reason.
• Many correctly pointed out that Google removed the individual defining characteristics of its icons, replacing them with an outline made up of the company's signature four colors.
• If you look closely, you'll recognize the outline of a document for Google Docs, or a camera for Meet.
• But at a glance, the new icons were much harder to differentiate than the ones they replaced.