Google has been discovered to be experimenting with a brand new look for the dynamic colour themes in Gboard for Android. The change is delicate, however noticeable. As an alternative of utilizing three completely different colours for the non-letter keys, Google is testing a single colour pulled from the dynamic colour palette. This is applicable to keys like shift, ?123, comma/emoji, interval, enter, and backspace, in addition to the menu button.
The thought behind this transformation appears to be to create a extra unified and fewer visually distracting keyboard expertise. Through the use of a single colour for these keys, Google is hoping to make the keyboard really feel extra cohesive and fewer cluttered.This up to date dynamic colour theme is at present solely accessible on the most recent Gboard beta (model 14.7.10.x). Even then, it’s not widespread. Throughout a number of Pixel telephones used for testing, the brand new theme solely appeared on one machine. This implies that Google continues to be within the early phases of testing this new design and it could be some time earlier than it rolls out to all customers.
It’s price noting that this transformation solely impacts the dynamic colour themes. The “Default” themes, which solely accent the enter key, stay unchanged. This provides customers the choice to stay with the previous look if they like.
This is only one of many updates that Google has been making to Gboard in latest months. The corporate has additionally been engaged on bettering the keyboard’s efficiency, including new options, and increasing assist for extra languages.
The change appears so delicate that I’m unsure why it’s being performed. Nonetheless, I admire Google’s efforts in making the UI extra interesting. I’m to see if this replace will make a noticeable distinction in my every day use of Gboard. It’s potential that this extra unified colour scheme might be much less distracting whereas typing, however I’ll want to make use of it for some time to see if it makes an actual distinction. I’m all the time blissful to see corporations like Google experimenting with new design concepts and attempting to enhance the person expertise.
