Here's how Google icons will look from the perspective of a colorblind individual (deuteranopia). See how bad the new icons in the second row looks like.

Funny that those LinkedIn Lunatics didn't make a post on this.

Well.. it's clear which icon they liked out of those 5 😗

I don't understand what's wrong with them

Isn't color blindness a spectrum? Meaning that everyone will experience it differently. Also, people with color blindness most likely have a different frame of reference, making their expectations and opinions different as well.

@ScriptCoded There's different "types" of color blindness, predominantly whether you see red, green or blue (there's some weirdness with purple, but anyway). So it's not really a spectrum.

But to your second point, yes color blind individuals will have a different reference. But then, given people's varying tastes in fashion, don't we all?

That isn't just an issue for the colorblind.
These icons probably look pretty sameish to full-sighted people too.

They oversimplified their icon set.

Everybody is clear ... These icon is the worts shit append to google after the google photo is not free anymore

Heck?
Icons aren't really about color. That's the reason most icons are actually one color only.. it's about fucking shapes.

These things having multiple colors is just a bonus, if you feel color-offended just use a theme..

Just write "reeee fuck google" like everyone else.

I don't like the new icons either but...

to be completely fair...

the shapes of the icons are completely enough to distinguish them for a colorblind person. So I think this argument doesn't really prove any real points. I dislike the icons from a design perspective, but unless someone colorblind actually has a problem figuring out what the icon is, it's a moot point.

there's an easily recognizable shape as part of each icon.

the M of Gmail, the number inside the calendar, the triangle of Drive, the elongated A4 of Docs and the rectangle of chat

It's objectively worse, but it's not "bad". It does it's job well enough still. I for one never had issue identifying the right icon in my mobile device, but I'm not colorblind... though I also don't use the colors to find them either... it's always the shape that tells me what I'm looking at...

@nitwhiz I think the problem is that the letter looks less like a letter, the calendar looks less like a calendar, and the document looks less like a document. You can't tell what the app does from the icon. Previously, only Google drive was like this — how does a triangle relate to a storage service?

Accessibility helps all people, not only the weakest.

According to Google there's no visual language among the previous logos, which means "no story to tell". Atleast they called the shit pile of garbage their "reImagination" of G-Suite as Google Workplace.

Just stop being colorblind

Looks like Diarrhea and Jaundice

More clean, more confuse