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Google Gets A New Favicon, Again. It’s Uh.. Colorful
- mdasen 18y agoYou know, the big G was recognizable and everyone knew it was Google. Then the small g came along and Google had this big lengthy explanation on how they spent month after month trying to come up with what their favicon should be. And now they just change it again? Because they wanted something less recognizable? Everyone knew the big G. Everyone associated it with Google. When you're Google, it doesn't really matter what your logo is - people use you because you're good, they just need a mark that they associate with that quality. Only when you're bad at what you do (yet still need people to think you're good at what you do) does this sillyness have a lot of meaning.
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoI completely agree. The big G was awesome, visible, recognizable, everything a favicon should be. I even went out of my way to put it back: http://foohack.com/2008/06/hacking-the-google-favicon/ http://foohack.com/2008/06/hacking-the-google-favicon/ This one is better than the previous iteration. Not as nice looking, but easier to pick up in your peripheral vision when scanning a list of tabs. Favicons don't have to be pretty. But they do have to be recognizable and distinctive from the bluish gray of a web browser's chrome.
- jonursenbach 18y agoIs it just me, or does this remind anybody else of Windows? Perhaps a ploy to steal more marketshare away from MS Office and IE users?
- Raphael 18y agoNow that you mention it, the logo is eerily similar. It's just rotated 90 degrees with a "g" slapped on top.
- qhoxie 18y agoOfficial post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.h...
- ionfish 18y agoThe design that inspired the new favicon is a lot better than the one they went with in the end.