With the launch of the Pixel 11, Google has updated a handful of Pixel app icons to better align with its latest design language.
The biggest update is to Pixel Camera, which still mostly takes after a DSLR. The body is a rectangle with corner flash and centered viewfinder. Besides the updated shape, there’s a new color palette in Pixel blue. The gradient reflects how ML and AI have long been part of the Pixel Camera experience. This update coincides with a big update to the actual in-app viewfinder.
The primary change to Pixel Weather is going from a blue background, which fittingly represented the sky, to a plain one. Besides the icon, we haven’t noticed any major changes to the app itself.
Similar to Weather, Pixel Recorder drops the background color for a red waveform that is less detailed than before and a bit more stylized.
Google Calculator also drops its background to place the minus, multiplication, plus, and equals symbols in green (dark and light) circles.
The last change is to the Google Clock app, with Material 3 Expressive fully leveraged to illustrate the app’s name. It takes after a design first introduced on Wear OS.
Overall, these new icons make for nice modernizations that match the likes of Pixel Journal and Screenshots. Recorder, Calculator, and Weather not going all blue is a nice bit of differentiation.
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