: Critique: Icon app redesign An amateur graphic designer here. I was told to redesign a reddit app icon on playstore and he told me to apply the Google's new design scheme that was leaked a

@Eichhorn212

I think you could keep the shadow on the red dot. I like it, gives it dimension. But it seems like the other fonts have shadows coming from 45 left. Stick to that and you'll be good imo.

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@Bryan765

Decide where your light source is, and stick to that. As you look closer at all icons in the example, they have their light source at 315°—top left. All shadows and shading obey that light source.

In your icon, the dark left page suggests the light coming from 270°—left, yet the shading on the green and red pages suggest a light source at 45°—top right. The apparent shadow of the logo's red dot complicates matters even further.

Moreover, I would shy away from using all Google colors in a single icon unless you absolutely need to. Check any Google icon, and count how many of red, blue, green and yellow actually appear. In your example icons, the 'maps' icon has two (red and yellow), the Gmail and the chat icon have one (red and green respectively) and the others don't even have any. Less is more.

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