Gmail offers an option to increase the font size of your text every time you write an email. This can be helpful if you ...

Well, Gmail’s logo was the product of this situation — it was designed by Dennis Hwang (who’s responsible for most of Google’s doodles at the time) the night before Gmail launched.

Gmail’s logo might seem a bit too business-to-business at times, ... Fox and Google co-founder Sergey Brin watched over Hwang as he made it, initially using the same font as Google’s logo, Catull.

Google’s new Gmail logo looks a lot more Google-like now. The new Gmail logo includes Google’s four primary brand colors, and ditches the iconic envelope in favor of simplicity.

The Gmail logo is suggestive of a larger problem in the redesign: It elevates consistency above all else. Consistent branding can help create a coherent identity, but it’s not the only relevant ...

Fox says that initially they had tried to make the Gmail logo in the same font as the Google logo, a font called Catull designed in 1983. But Catull has, as Fox calls it, a "very awkward" letter ...