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New icons spotted for Windows Live Sync, Family Safety, Devices, Groups, and Profile

May 23, 2010 3:41 pm by damaster | 16 comments

Thanks to a post from Technogran (via MyMicrosoftLife), who posted a new icon of Windows Live Sync on her new blog post, we were able to dig further get a glimpse of some of the new icons for Windows Live Wave 4. We’ve given you a preview of the new icons for Sync and Family Safety previously, but here’s the full versions of the new icons:


Sync	Devices	Family Safety	Groups	Office

Notice that besides Windows Live Office, all of the icons have the same “yellow ribbon”, including an updated Windows Live Groups icon, making them all consistent with the current Wave 3 set of icons. Not only this, but we’ve also noticed that there’s a new icon for Windows Live Profile, but we were unable to get a clearer picture of it:

Profile

What do you think about these new icons? Leave a comment below!

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FremyCompany
Excepted the Office Icon, I prefer the new version of those icons. The new Office icon, already revealed since a while, seems less easthetic than the old, mainly because it seems to ‘splitted’. But it’s only my way to see the things.
jtmat
I don’t care what the icons look like… but I do care how they work after I click them. LOL
Seriously, the new icons look okay… they are icons. Can’t wait to see the new sync and how mesh is used.
- Chris
  so have 8bit 3.1 era icons stretched out to be extra large? Guess that would mess up your desktop.
  If you don’t care for the icons then why respond? Waste of your time.
  - jtmat
    Not sure who pissed you off today, but if you read my email, I stated “seriously” and go on to explaine the new icons look okay.
    The first part was a joke… much like you. :-)
http://reinnovate.wordpress.com/ Kit
I wish they are animated.
- Chris
  Why? They don’t need to me and icons are never animated.
Asrialys
It’d be cool if the yellow lines lined up to shape something if you put the icons together in a certain fashion :P
- Chris
  There is no need for that.
George
How come everything else is getting new icons. I really hope the main programs get new icons. Would love to see new icons for Live Mail and Messenger. The Messenger ribbon has got quite old now. I think they should use the gold hotmail logo for live mail (I made it into a desktop icon and it looks awesome) and have something similar with the messenger icon.
tn0
That’s the old Office icon with the new color. Strange.
raywall
I LOVE consistency. I’m glad they updated the icons to the wave 3. I think “Windows Live Mail” and “Hotmail” should be different icons, but they should both have the yellow ribbons. Also, I think “Windows Live Office” should have a yellow ribbon with the Office logo to distinguish it as a “Windows Live” service.
- Damaster – LiveSide.net
  I like your idea of having a yellow ribbon with Office logo for “Windows Live Office”.
  In case you missed it, Hotmail does have a new icon now (the orange-looking one with a yellow ribbon), so that it can be distinguished from “Windows Live Mail” (the software), which is retaining its Wave 3 icon with the ribbon. It’s a good move by Microsoft, I reckon.
  - raywall
    I’ve seen the new orange looking Hotmail icon, but I don’t recall seeing it with a yellow ribbon. I’ll look for it!
    - Damaster – LiveSide.net
      Maybe this helps: http://www.liveside.net/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/main.metablogapi/5751.Hotmail_5F00_6DED2A31.png
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=551119507 Brent Vermilyea
I’ve never much liked the Windows Live logos. That includes this batch. That said, I give MSFT props for keeping them all consistent: blueish with the gold ribbon.
As a graphic designer myself, creating descriptive, informative icons for a family of software is super-tricky. You have to do two things well: (1) Effectively represent what the programs/services do and (2) have the collective icons blend together enough so that they look like an organized whole. On paper this might sound easy, but it’s actually quite difficult. The Office icons are a good example of getting it right.
CarlosJ
You’ve forget the windows live mobile icon, here a list of the new icons:
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/logos/sprite_logos_hotmail.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_hotmail.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/logos/sprite_logos_sync.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_sync.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/logos/sprite_logos_familysafety.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_familysafety.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_devices.png
-> http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_mobile.png
http://windowslivepreview.com/Content/media/icons/sprite_icons_office.png