What's with Google's new mini icon?
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What's with Google's new mini icon?
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Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#2i was wondering about the change, too, but i didn't find this article interesting. in fact, talking about the icon at all isn't interesting. i was just startled by the new favicon and it took me a few google pages (maps, gmail, search) to drive home that, yes, these funny tabs were for google and all of google. i don't like it, but by now i'm used to it. i'll probably forget these ever had another icon by the end of today.
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#3i was wondering about the change, too, but i didn't find this article interesting. in fact, talking about the icon at all isn't interesting. i was just startled by the new favicon and it took me a few google pages (maps, gmail, search) to drive home that, yes, these funny tabs were for google and all of google. i don't like it, but by now i'm used to it. i'll probably forget these ever had another icon by the end of…
I bypassed most of the article, but as for the favicon, I think it's an improvement. The previous blue lower-case 'g' was just bad. This syncs with the colors of their logo, and is distinctive.
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#4i was wondering about the change, too, but i didn't find this article interesting. in fact, talking about the icon at all isn't interesting. i was just startled by the new favicon and it took me a few google pages (maps, gmail, search) to drive home that, yes, these funny tabs were for google and all of google. i don't like it, but by now i'm used to it. i'll probably forget these ever had another icon by the end of…
The interesting bit in the article is this:
"The new favicon is based on a design sent in by André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil."
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#5Difficult to say, but personally, I don't think the logo works that well. The most distinctive logos are usually made up of clearly defined lines with a very clear symmetrical shape, for example the Nazi Party or Mercedes Benz, or even the YCombinator logo.
The new google logo is okay, but it's a bit too mixed up.
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#6Difficult to say, but personally, I don't think the logo works that well. The most distinctive logos are usually made up of clearly defined lines with a very clear symmetrical shape, for example the Nazi Party or Mercedes Benz, or even the YCombinator logo. The new google logo is okay, but it's a bit too mixed up.
I am not a designer, but I think the "g" in the new favicon doesn't look good.
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#7The new google logo is AWFUL. You just can't effectively use negative space in a canvas that small. All I see is four coloured blobs and I have to mentally remind myself that it's Google.
Sure, I'll eventually get used to it, but it's so noncoherent - it shouldn't be a CHORE to get used to it, it should just STICK.
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#8Was there this much fuss the last time they changed the favicon? Sheesh. Get over it already.
Re: What's with Google's new mini icon?
#9The new google logo is AWFUL. You just can't effectively use negative space in a canvas that small. All I see is four coloured blobs and I have to mentally remind myself that it's Google. Sure, I'll eventually get used to it, but it's so noncoherent - it shouldn't be a CHORE to get used to it, it should just STICK.
The rest of us can see it just fine. But I will say that the previous two favicons were much better.
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#10A friend of mine agrees: Awful.
So why did the first capital 'G' favicon work? Simple - it's the first (large) letter on the search page!