Microsoft is redesigning over 100 icons with new colors, materials

Recently, the Microsoft design team announced that they have redesigned more than 100 application/service icons in cooperation with the company’s product team. All-new icons are designed in accordance with Microsoft’s Fluent Design language and represent a stronger and more unified Microsoft brand. In this large-scale icon adjustment, the most noteworthy is the icon adjustment of Windows itself.

In the above example of the new icon provided by Microsoft, we also saw the redesigned logo representing Windows 10. You can see that the shape and size of the icon have not changed. Gradient color, the blue depth of the small window on the left is obviously deeper than the small window on the right, giving a more three-dimensional feel.

Microsoft wrote:

“As we continue to evolve our technology and roll out new icons that will reflect the future of Microsoft, our design system will also evolve to address new scenarios that we haven’t considered yet. Developing a system that encompasses the spectrum of literal to abstract while balancing product identity and the Microsoft brand is a huge challenge — but nothing worth accomplishing is ever easy.”