Google Changes its Favicon Again

January 10th, 2009 by TFTB.net Leave a reply »

Last time google changed its favicon(the tiny image that typically appears next to the URL in your browser), it was a calligraphic “g” from the previous traditional Capital “G”. This time is very different. Google gets colorful.

Google's Earlier Favicon

NEW

The new design consists of four color areas – blue, red, green and yellow – overlaid by a lowercase white “g”.

Maybe Google has created hundred’s of favicons and showing us those one by one. For those who don’t understand, don’t worry this change won’t affect Google’s Search results its gonna be the same old Google good search.

But here is what Google has to say :

The design process we went through was rigorous and interesting, so we thought we would share more of it here. We tried in total more than 300 permutations. It was much harder than we thought at first. We wanted something distinctive and noticeable, so we aimed toward transparency or semi-transparency, so the image would have a more distinctive noticeable shape than just a block. We wanted something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself. Since we don’t really have a symbol that means Google, we felt it best to work with the logo and letters within it. Our design team tried literally hundreds of approaches.

You can always check Google’s New Favicon here.

Happy Googling!

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