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New Google Favicon Deja Vu All Over Again?
theodp writes "Last June, Google rolled out a new favicon, the small branding icon that graces your URL bar when you visit Google. Which, as it turned out, bore a striking similarity to Garth Brooks' Circle-G logo. Well, Google went back to the drawing board and has come back with a new favicon, which it says was inspired by — not copied from, mind you — its users' submitted ideas. Some are also seeing inspiration elsewhere for the new favicon, which consists of white 'g' on a background of four color swatches. Take the AVG antivirus icon, for instance. Or everybody's favorite memory toy, Simon. Or — in perhaps the unkindest cut of all — the four-color Microsoft Windows logo, shown here with a superimposed white '7'. Anything else come to mind?" What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.
Almost a direct copy of an Austin-based printing company's logo: http://www.ginnysprinting.com/
Agreed. For the first few days I kept noticing the new favicon for google and wondering in my head "Why is google putting up a jumble of random shapes for their favicon?" I had assumed it was like the anniversary of some grand puzzle maker or something. Only yesterday did it suddenly hit me "OH that's a g!"
Terrible logo. In the middle it's at least legible.
The original (the old old) logo was way better. And the favicon they did is worse than the one they got the inspiration from.
I don't get it, why do they keep changing it? I thought forming a brand meant keeping the same recognizable logo as long as you could, not arbitrarly changing it every 6 months!
What comes to mind for me is just how obsessed many people are with the Google favicon.
You mean like the Slashdot editors who think it's important enough to put on the front page?
Well, I noticed it first thing this morning when I started my workstation.
Personally I think it's damn ugly -- which surprised me for Google.
Maybe I'll put a custom one in my userChrome.css.
Me lost me cookie at the disco.
When it changed, I for one thought my browser was being hijacked.
Yes, it is a usability problem.
In much the same way, a penny is money.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.