These are the Office icons Microsoft rejected

The Word concepts adjacent to the last icon connected the right.

Microsoft is engaged rolling retired new curvy and colorful caller Office icons, and present it’s revealing a acceptable of plan concepts it experimented with earlier finalizing these caller icons. Some of the concepts are radically antithetic from what Microsoft is shipping, with plan explorations for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint that much intimately lucifer the Office for Mac icons of the past.

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

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

PowerPoint has ever been astir slides, and Microsoft experimented with a assortment of ways of visualizing that for its latest PowerPoint icon. A mates of concepts absorption connected the lettering, turning into a ribbon-like P oregon a P missive with a pastry illustration hanging disconnected of it. The last icon plan is simply a batch much tame though, with a somewhat much rounded and colorful instrumentality connected the 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 the moment. Microsoft appears to beryllium utilizing the versions with letters successful Windows, but for iOS it’s opting for icons without the distinctive letters.

What bash you think? Are determination immoderate conception versions you similar implicit the last designs Microsoft picked?