What’s Google’s finest four-color app icon? [Results]

After 4 days of voting, we’ve got a winner in our single-elimination event for the very best Google four-color app icon.

Chrome beat Google Maps by a transparent margin: 53.9% vs 46.1%.

The browser triumphed over Google Dwelling (66.3% vs 33.7%) within the Spherical of 16 and Gmail (56.2% vs 43.8%) throughout the quarterfinals. The semifinal towards Google Pockets was a special story at 50.4% vs 49.6% in what would have been a seeding upset. 

Chrome is without doubt one of the few Google apps to have a full-bleed icon on Android. It actually does assist the applying stand out on a homescreen. (Different icons embrace: Clock, Earth, Rewards, Translate. YouTube Music, which is of course a circle, is frustratingly positioned in one other container.) The identify can also be distinctive in that it breaks the Google conference of simply being referred to as after its fundamental operate/function.

Over the rounds of voting, some took concern with the icon not likely representing something in comparison with one thing like Maps (a location pin) or Gmail’s ‘M’ and envelope. That mentioned, its recognition has arguably earned it some leeway.

The icon was final up to date in 2022 with model 100 of the browser. Google checked out a couple of different designs that had been extra drastic earlier than deciding on a very flat emblem that matches most different first-party providers. 

Due to everybody for partaking in our little competitors over the break!