

The updated Chrome logo should be available to everyone after updating to version 100. On ChromeOS, they use brighter colors without gradients to match the looks of the rest of system icons. For example, on Windows, the icons take on an obviously gradated look, appearing at home on Windows 10 & 11. We want the icons to feel recognizably Chrome, but also well crafted for each OS. Then, we created OS-specific customizations. We also found that placing certain shades of green and red next to each other created an unpleasant color vibration, so we introduced a very subtle gradient to the main icon to mitigate that, making the icon more accessible.

Elvin went into further details about the update to the logo, saying that the design is actually slightly different across each platform to make it fit in with the theme and design language of the OS too:
