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So bad, is it good? Google on Friday joined the disco ball icon fun taking place on home screens everywhere. After Spotify’s new temporary disco ball app icon, released to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, sparked widespread online backlash (and a bit of praise for those who like a bit of kitsch!)
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His post included a screenshot of a Pixel phone decked out entirely in shiny disco ball-inspired icons, which is as outrageous (unbelievable??) as it sounds.
The new icons are available through Pixel’s relatively new custom icons feature, which lets users choose from different AI-generated styles for their app icons. Before that, users could only customize their icons by changing their colors to match the phone’s wallpaper and theme.
The custom icons feature rolled out in March’s Pixel Drop — Google’s term for periodic feature updates for Pixel phones — offering app icon templates like a hand-drawn “Scribbles” aesthetic, a gold theme called “Treasure,” a colorful, graphic style dubbed “Easel,” and others.
Earlier this week, Samat jokingly tweeted: “Should we make this icon pack on Android?” Next to the Chrome icon that has turned into a disco ball.
Silly as it may be, Google is the one who actually made it happen.
Many people had complained about the Spotify icon, describing it as ugly, prompting the company to remind them that it was just a temporary process. “Well, we know glam isn’t for everyone,” the presenter wrote.
It seems that Google does not agree with this opinion. As off-brand as its disco-themed icons are, there’s also something whimsical about turning your entire home screen into a sparkling kaleidoscope of tiny apps. (And in case you missed it, the Gilenya generation is in a state of whimsy right now, the New York Times reported, describing their “playful response to a difficult world.”)
Upon seeing Google’s release, X user and former Pixly co-founder Race Johsnon joked: “When your home screen gets bottle service.” Another said: “Oh my God, it’s terrible. I’ll take it!”
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