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.

How to increase the default font size . If you like to write emails in large or huge text (the two sizes larger than Gmail's default normal), make the change in your settings.

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 ...