Microsoft shows off new Office icons, redesigned for the first time since 2013

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In a Microsoft Design post on Medium today, the company showed off how it's redesigning the Office app icons for the first time in five years. The last refresh came with Office 2013, and as you can see from the image above, a lot has changed over the years.

 

We're no longer seeing the document outlines that we had before. Now, the lines in the Word icon are meant to indicate a document, and there are green cells in the Excel icon. The idea was also to take the letter and the symbol apart. For example, on the previous icons, there was a folder shape with the letter on the front and the document inside.

 

Now, the letters are separate; they're still there, as is the document, and this is meant to "keep tradition alive while gently pushing the envelope". In the previous design, the letter used two-thirds of the overall logo, while the document took up a third. This has obviously changed as well.

 

Announced alongside the new ribbon, Microsoft will finally be rolling out the new icons in the next few months, starting with the mobile apps and the web.

Gallery: Office icons 2018

 

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[Shalsh95]

 Looking to the development of these word icons brings back your life memories.

[BimBamSmash]

Used to think modernity means finding a easier, more efficient way of getting things done. Seems like in practice it is just a fancy way of displaying Abstract Graphic Design to the public.

 

Regardless, I like these new icons. Glad they're putting that strictly bi-color, squared design language behind and applying a little bit of gradient and taste to things. Too bad they are for Office subscribers only.

[Convaallaria]

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