Google Fit could be getting a new logo, suggesting it’s here to stay

What you have to know

• Google might be engaged on a brand new emblem for its Google Match service.
• The redesigned emblem has been noticed within the app’s problems in Put on OS.
• It is unclear when Google Match will formally undertake the brand new design, nevertheless it means that the health app will coexist with Fitbit in the long term.

Google could also be manifesting renewed curiosity in its in-house health-tracking platform as new proof suggests Google Match shall be getting a brand new emblem.

In accordance with 9to5Google (opens in new tab), the exercise monitoring app is about to obtain a minor makeover that switches some colours round. The brand new emblem has apparently been round for some time in Match’s Put on OS problems, and 9to5 has shared its personal recreation based mostly on what they have been instructed.

The brand new emblem has a number of notable modifications. First off, the guts emblem is now not a closed form. The blue and yellow sections additionally take the form of a checkmark, most certainly emphasizing the Coronary heart Factors and Steps metrics that you just see first whenever you open the app.

Moreover, in contrast to within the present emblem, the opposite finish of the U-shaped pink section now not touches the blue (or inexperienced) section. The inexperienced line on the backside of the guts form can be now not perpendicular to the yellow line.

Because of this some colours have moved round. The inexperienced and blue colours, particularly, have swapped locations. You may see the brand new emblem under.

It stays unclear when and if Google plans to roll out the brand new emblem on a number of the finest Android smartwatches. Whereas it is not dwell but on Match, a brand new model of its emblem can already be seen via the app’s icons for stats and exercise in Put on OS.

The brand new discovery means that regardless of Google’s rising want to make Fitbit the centerpiece of its well being and wellness efforts, it continues to care about Match.

It is not shocking, provided that Fitbit founder and CEO James Park just lately confirmed to CNET (opens in new tab) that each Match and Fitbit will proceed to co-exist. Match’s new emblem serves as additional proof that the service will not be going away.