Google's new icons are literally camouflaged. They have simple shapes, but the color changes break the shapes into indiscriminate masses of stuff. That's exact

Google's new icons are literally camouflaged. They have simple shapes, but the color changes break the shapes into indiscriminate masses of stuff. That's exactly what animals and the military do to disguise themselves: They break their own shape and outline so it can't be snap-recognized as being distinct from the environment. Google's new icons do exactly that, except that app icons should be snap-recognizable. Now they're a herd of zebras where you can't tell where one begins and another ends. Someone ran a colorblindness filter on them. Predictably, they looked better because turning everything non-blue into yellow made the shapes more coherent.