It’s been a while since my last visit but I thought I’d come back to help give a little bit of context to our new custom app icons
As you might’ve seen, the latest app release (5.23.0) includes a range of new custom app icons. For all users, there will be updates to the Pride and Black Culture icons and there will additionally be a new Stand with Ukraine icon.
Other new icons include Business Lite and Business Pro for Lite/Pro Business accounts. If you have Plus, Premium, or are an Alpha, Beta, or Investor user – you will see refreshed versions of the old icons. It’s worth noting that all older icons will no longer be available (apologies if you were in love with something from the old set!). As for getting a new icon, simply head to ‘settings’ within the app to check out the selection.
Shout out to our engineers @allanspreys and @DanielCoutts for all your hard work behind the scenes getting these icons into the app!
And finally, I’d love to hear any ideas you might have for future custom app icons. If there’s something you feel strongly about and there’s a good case for it, we’d love to make it happen.
iOS also has a separate cache for the teeny tiny icons in app folders on your home screen, as I found out when Wise updated their app with the new branding and it still showed the blue icon in the collapsed folder for ages. So yeah may take a while to fully be reflected across the whole system.
There was also an issue with the business account icons not showing straight away, I enquired on Twitter and apparently there was something wrong on Monzo’s end they had to fix to make them available. I’m now using the white business Lite icon.
Loving the new icon set. Single colour Monzo logos are the way to go!
One bit of feedback: I love the concept behind the Premium icon (and the Premium “monzo” in the new layout card) but I can’t help but feel it’s a bit washed out with not quite enough contrast between the logo and the background. For the app, sadly I really preferred the previous version for Premium - this one looks like it’s disappearing in the middle.
That said, fabulous effort! Now, can Premium customers have the option for the blue Plus in the app and as a logo please?!
