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January 12, 2009
Google Unveils New Favicon
Google has a new Favicon, which it unveiled over the weekend. If you're not familiar with the term, a Favicon is a small image that appears in a browser bar or tab, next to the title tag and/or URL, depending on the browser you use.
Here's Google's new Favicon:
It's based on a submission by a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil named André Resende. Here's Resende's original design:
Here are some honorable mentions, which also incorporate the letter G and Google's famous use of primary colors:
by Hadi Onur Demirsoy
by Lucian E. Marin
by Yusuf Sevgen
Related Reading:
Google Favicon Bookmarks the Best Internet Research
Posted by Nathania Johnson on January 12, 2009 8:07 AM
Comments
Lots of people are saying they don't like it, but I think it's really cool and it fits their brand nicely. Way better than the icky purple one.
Jill Whalen January 13, 2009 5:24 PM
