Remember Google’s recognizable favicon? It was a capital ‘G’ in blue within a white box with Google’s colours used as border colours.
Well, today I noticed that google have changed their favicon.ico to a lower-case ‘g’ and appears to have some sort of shadow.
It’s good to see Google developing but does this favicon really shout ‘Google’? I’m not so sure it was a great decision to change their favicon.
What do you think?
3 | Peter
If you want images of them, I made a blog post with a comparison, and a small “review” of it:
http://www.arpia.be/2008/05/googles-new-favicon/
4 | Shaun
Excellent post Peter, you explain things a lot more detailed than I did. I guess I was in shock when I noticed it.
I’m not sure that Google would do a full rebrand, it’s got a good formula and should really stick to it.
As for the lowercase thing, I think it’s supposed to represent the second ‘g’ in Google… though Google haven’t mentioned anything about it.
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