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How a minimalist approach unlocked our ability to create a more detailed representation of the world

Reimagining Google Maps with a New Color Palette Skip to content 0 results Oral History Exploring Color on Google Maps How a minimalist approach unlocked our ability to create a more detailed representation of the world Could a new color system help simplify Google Maps, a complex data visualization of the real world? A team of designers, product managers, and engineers asked this question, and their idea sparked a year-long collaboration and led to a feat that no one in Maps’ 15-year history thought was possible. They dramatically streamlined a palette of 700+ colors down to 25 major and mino

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