In addition to letter shape, the letter colors (in relation to each other) also change the perceived whitespace. So, in my opinion, it should be kerned differe

In addition to letter shape, the letter colors (in relation to each other) also change the perceived whitespace. So, in my opinion, it should be kerned differently than her proposal, and Google's version looks better to me. But, frankly, the yellow "o" will always make it look off to me.