Google Meet
The teal speech bubble with a white video camera, inherited from Hangouts Meet, became a camera shape alone, built from Google's blue, red, yellow and green.
Google Meet logo before and after
BeforeUntil Oct 2020
Google Meet product logo (before 2020) from Google's official product logo set, gstatic.com/images/branding/productlogos (meet/v11), the set Google's own workspace.google.com product pages load. Source: gstatic.com
AfterSince 6 Oct 2020
Google Meet product logo (2020) from Google's official product logo set, gstatic.com/images/branding/productlogos (meet_2020q4/v8), the set Google's own workspace.google.com product pages load. Source: gstatic.com
Key facts
Google Meet launched a new logo on 6 Oct 2020.
- Brand
- Google Meet
- Launched
- Studio
- Not recordedAdd it
- What changed
- The teal speech bubble with a white video camera, inherited from Hangouts Meet, became a camera shape alone, built from Google's blue, red, yellow and green.
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The Google Meet rebrand, explained
Meet started life as Hangouts Meet, and its icon was a teal speech bubble holding a white video camera. On 6 October 2020 it renamed G Suite as Google Workspace and announced "new four-color icons for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Meet" and the Docs editors, all from "the same family."
The new Meet icon drops the bubble. The camera itself becomes the logo, a rounded body and lens built from overlapping bands of blue, red, yellow and green. Ars Technica listed what had been lost across the set: "Gmail used to be red, Calendar used to be blue, Drive used to be green/yellow/blue, Docs used to be blue, Meet used to be teal. Now they are all multi-colored with only the shapes to tell them apart."
Ars argued the icons seemed "geared more toward being recognizable in an app store search rather than in a user’s app drawer," where one multicoloured Google icon stands out among competitors but every Google app looks alike.
Some users ranked the new icons against each other. "The new Google Calendar icon is breathtakingly bad! And yet the new Google Meet icon is worse," wrote one.
In short: The bubble burst, the camera got four colours.
Quote
“In the coming weeks, you will see new four-color icons for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Meet, and our collaborative content creation tools like Docs, Sheets, Slides that are part of the same family.”
Press
- Google Workspace Blog6 Oct 2020Announcing Google Workspace, everything you need to get it done, in one location
- Google Cloud Press Corner6 Oct 2020Introducing Google Workspace: Everything You Need to Get Anything Done, Now In One Place
- Ars Technica6 Oct 2020Behold the new icons for Gmail, Drive, Calendar, and Meet
- The Verge6 Oct 2020Gmail has a new logo that’s a lot more Google
Reactions
Sources
- 1. workspace.google.comhttps://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/introducing-google-workspace
- 2. googlecloudpresscorner.comhttps://www.googlecloudpresscorner.com/2020-10-06-Introducing-Google-Workspace-Everything-You-Need-to-Get-Anything-Done,-Now-In-One-Place
- 3. arstechnica.comhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/10/google-rebrands-g-suite-as-google-workplace-ships-new-multi-colored-icons/
- 4. theverge.comhttps://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21503835/gmail-new-logo-design-google-workspace-features