These Are The Office Icons Microsoft Rejected

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Microsoft is engaged rolling retired new curvy and colorful caller Office icons, and now it’s revealing a group of creation concepts it experimented pinch earlier finalizing these caller icons. Some of the concepts are radically different from what Microsoft is shipping, pinch creation explorations for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that much intimately lucifer nan Office for Mac icons of nan past.

The Word conception icons (above) see a notepad-like research and different ways to visualize stacks of paper, aliases documents. Microsoft experimented pinch making nan Word lettering nan cardinal portion of nan icon, and besides versions wherever nan lettering blends successful aliases is wholly absent. Microsoft yet settled connected a creation that has 3 horizontal bars alternatively of four, and it’s utilizing versions of nan icon pinch and without lettering.

Microsoft focuses heavy connected nan usage of cells successful its existing and caller Excel icons, and nan conception ones seldom diverge from this. I really for illustration nan X icon though, but nan remainder look akin to what Microsoft landed connected for nan last icon.

PowerPoint has ever been astir slides, and Microsoft experimented pinch a assortment of ways of visualizing that for its latest PowerPoint icon. A mates of concepts attraction connected nan lettering, turning into a ribbon-like P aliases a P missive pinch a pastry floor plan hanging disconnected of it. The last icon creation is simply a batch much tame though, pinch a somewhat much rounded and colorful return connected nan existent PowerPoint icon.

All of Microsoft’s caller Office icons — including caller Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, and OneNote designs — are starting to rotation retired crossed Windows and iOS astatine nan moment. Microsoft appears to beryllium utilizing nan versions pinch letters successful Windows, but for iOS it’s opting for icons without nan unique letters.

What do you think? Are location immoderate conception versions you for illustration complete nan last designs Microsoft picked?