

The icon of Google Drive is executed in the iconic corporate color palette of Google - green, yellow, red, and blue - not to leave any doubt of the affiliation to the corporation. The angles of the figure are softened and the three main fragments form three triangles on the overlapping areas - red, dark blue, and moss green. The new concept is fully based on the original one, but the iconic geometric badge of 2020 is flat and bright. In 2020 the Google Drive logo was redesigned again.

It is instantly recognizable and has an important message hidden in it. The Google Drive logo is modern and actual. It is a commonly used symbol of information security, which is formed by three principles: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The shape of the Google Drive logo is also very symbolic. So blue is for Docs, green is for Sheets, and yellow is for Slides. The logo depicts a white triangle enclosed in a geometric frame with its three sides using different colors.Īs the software itself is based on three main options, which are Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides, each side of the Google Drive’s emblem is colored in the main shade of each program. The company designed an icon, which looks strong and bright, at the same time keeping the main product’s idea in it. The Google Drive logo is memorable and meaningful. All three colorful segments of the emblem featured thin dark triangles on their edges, which stood for shadows and added volume and motion to the image.

It was an abstract geometric shape composed of three parallelograms in yellow, green, and blue, and forming a white triangle pointing up with the negative space. The original Google Drive visual identity was created in 2012 and stayed with the Google service for a couple of years.
