Two of Google's strengths are its agility and its simplicity. Some of these icons look colorful, complex and difficult - not very reminiscent of the company. Unless, of course, they're trying to change their image.
Captain John
· 1 year ago
I think each service should have a different color of the same favicon... so you can tell them apart quickly.
Amy
· 1 year ago
The important thing for Google is not just ot's outside appearance to the outside world.But also it's internal structure.With success and money come the "managers".The guys in grey suits who soon create "layers of stifling managment".A pyramid structure to help assist fleecing off the cash. Once they get inside a company,the writing of stagnation is on the wall.
nafnosseb
· 1 year ago
+1
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Douglas, Captain John,
So, which favicon(s) do you favor?
Corey
· 1 year ago
I agree that there should be sepearte favicons for each service. If you look at a majority of their services now this is the case: Gmail, Reader,Blogger, Calendar etc. If they continued with this standardization then they wouldn't have to worry about if one was good enough for the group.
Cedric
· 1 year ago
I think that the new icon could be the reason for the first trial about an icon :)
Agree. When I first saw the new favi in my tab bar I had to double check that I was actually on Google's homepage. The color is wrong, and putting it in lowercase is total sacrilege. It would be like if Yahoo! removed the exclamation point from their logo, and changed the font to comic sans.
I wonder if Google wanted to move away from the capital G to a lower-case one simply because lower-case looks "friendlier" than capitalized.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Mathew,
That's possible. But was the original favicon particularly threatening? I think the company needs to signify consumer-friendly while offering a logo that represents something big, a big, global idea. The "little g" just doesn't seem to offer that impression. Of course, it's not really all that necessary to loiter extensively around a the subject of what should make a favicon. If they choose "little g", they so be it. But, you know, keeping the icon as much alike to how it was for the past 8.5 years would just seem...logical to me.
Deepa
· 1 year ago
I personally don't like any of the above options the old one was the best. And I'd rather have that for all of the services. The old favicon did portray strength. When I saw this new one, the first thing that just popped into my head was stepping down.
Brian Carter
· 1 year ago
Google is not a small g.
This is not a small change.
This is a brand statement- without a clear rationale = mistake.
Patrick M
· 1 year ago
Agreeing with Brian.
Personally, I like the 'Go' icon; white background, familiar blue G, familiar red o, and a clever double-entendre. If not that, then just clean white with familiar blue G.
Lance
· 1 year ago
I've been staring at the new favicon for some time now, wondering whether or not I'm on a phished site. Honestly, this favicon has nothing in common with Google. Remove it, asap.
nafnosseb
· 1 year ago
Don't like this lowercase blue g. The colorful uppercase g is great.
Ling
· 1 year ago
I think maybe they should opt for the one where it says Google in full. Just G could also stand for God, which is what the all knowing all seeing Google is accused of being.
PaulGlazowski
· 1 year ago
Google in full may look a bit odd as the standard favicon, All scrunched up in just a couple dozen or so pixels.
Bill
· 1 year ago
I don't like the lowercase g at all. In fact, when I first saw it I figured it was part of a Greasemonkey script for Gmail. I looked for the option to go back to the default favicon.
As a designer, I know most often the simpler a solution to a visual problem, the better. And it's obvious Google went through many iterations. But this looks uninspired. An afterthought.
Azlo
· 1 year ago
new favicon is the biggest pile of shit I've seen from google yet...
i've almost dropped google search because of that crap looking favicon, its not easily noticable when you've got a ton of TABs opened up anymore.. friggon morrons, they'd be wise to change it back to something more simimlar to there old favicon.. instead they'll probably won't be because they are MORRONS, so I'll give live search some use now :p
Matt`
· 1 year ago
Not a fan of the new icon... I just don't think it suits them as much as the old one. Their homepage is about the cleanest, simplest, sparsest thing on the web, and that's what's great about it. The new g just looks over-designed and too stylistic.
Old G was a good representation - simple, solid and strong. New g... the same cannot be said.
Luckily the icon in the search bar for Firefox hasn't changed, and I don't notice the tab icons too often - Google tabs tend to stay open only as long as it takes to find the thing I'm after in the results.
Keeem
· 1 year ago
I hate the new icon.. I want the old one back, I keep overlooking my Google tabs in FF because I don't see my big 'G' *sigh*
Chris S
· 1 year ago
Agreed. The new lowercase G isn't.... good. If it's not broken.... don't fix it. And for the love of all that's holy, stay away from the rainbow things.
Mike
· 1 year ago
Yes i didn't like the little Google Favicon, too.
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That's possible. But was the original favicon particularly threatening? I think the company needs to signify consumer-friendly while offering a logo that represents something big, a big, global idea. The "little g" just doesn't seem to offer that impression. Of course, it's not really all that necessary to loiter extensively around a the subject of what should make a favicon. If they choose "little g", they so be it. But, you know, keeping the icon as much alike to how it was for the past 8.5 years would just seem...logical to me.
This is not a small change.
This is a brand statement- without a clear rationale = mistake.
Personally, I like the 'Go' icon; white background, familiar blue G, familiar red o, and a clever double-entendre. If not that, then just clean white with familiar blue G.
As a designer, I know most often the simpler a solution to a visual problem, the better. And it's obvious Google went through many iterations. But this looks uninspired. An afterthought.
i've almost dropped google search because of that crap looking favicon, its not easily noticable when you've got a ton of TABs opened up anymore.. friggon morrons, they'd be wise to change it back to something more simimlar to there old favicon.. instead they'll probably won't be because they are MORRONS, so I'll give live search some use now :p
Old G was a good representation - simple, solid and strong. New g... the same cannot be said.
Luckily the icon in the search bar for Firefox hasn't changed, and I don't notice the tab icons too often - Google tabs tend to stay open only as long as it takes to find the thing I'm after in the results.
We also released a Favicon-Contest (you can win 75 USD):
http://www.michaelkonjevic.com/contest.html