Given how “typography and iconography are so strongly related,” Google Fonts is adding Material icons and getting a new logo in the process.

Google has long offered a catalog of free and open source fonts. It’s now adding iconography to make a one-stop discovery portal and “provide even more value to our users.”

Unsurprisingly, Material Icons are the first addition to Google Fonts with over 2,000 distinct icons depicting common actions available in five styles: filled, outlined, rounded, two-tone, and sharp. Open-sourced, they are available for download or as a web font via the Fonts API under the Apache 2.0 license.

Moving forward, Google will make available other select open source icon sets.

Meanwhile, as part of adding iconography, Google Fonts is redesigning the icon that appears in its side header and other properties:

Specifically, there are a “number of glyphs and icon shapes blended together,” with color playing a big role in differentiating everything:

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