New Google Logo
Today Google’s blue G disappeared, and was replaced by a colourful favicon. Is this a permanent change, or just something temporary to mark an event?
The colours are the same as those on the Chrome browser, i.e. Google’s blue, red, green and yellow, but rather than arranged in a circle, they make a square pattern.
Cannot find anything official about the new Google logo yet, which seems odd. Although the blue G was a little dull. Maybe Google just decided that 2009 was time for a brighter, fresher look. In fact, it is probably time that Webologist had a makeover, as the dull red and black is really not particularly exciting.
UPDATE: Google have blogged it now: Google’s new favicon
Here they explain it:
“André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired our new favicon. His placement of a white ‘g’ on a color-blocked background was highly recognizable and attractive, while seeming to capture the essence of Google.
by André Resende Although we changed the color layout slightly and moved the ‘g’ off center, his submission formed the basis for our new design.
Incorporating all four of Google’s colors (red, yellow, green, and blue) into the four corners of the favicon was a theme we liked in many submissions. We also saw this idea in the designs submitted by Hadi Onur Demirsoy, Lucian E. Marin, and Yusuf Sevgen (pictured below).
by Hadi Onur Demirsoy
by Lucian E. Marin
by Yusuf Sevgen
