Google’s new colorful Favicon in year 2009

Google has a new favicon. A favicon is a small image that is generally used to reflect the identity of a web site. You can find it in the address bar, in your browser’s tabs, in the list of bookmarks or in some feed readers.

Google’s favicon is hosted at google.com/favicon.ico and it’s a 16×16 pixels image, a standard size for favicons. Google replaced the lower-case purple "g" in a rounded corner rectangle with a colorful new icon.

Personally, I miss the old one. I wonder if this is a long term change or someone at Google decided to have some fun in the year 2009.

Or is this a first step in rebranding of google image in year 2009?

Do you like the new icon or the new identity of google? Leave your comments.

 

As per Google’s official web site on Favicon -

Google’s new favicon

André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil, submitted the design that inspired our new favicon. His placement of a white ‘g’ on a color-blocked background was highly recognizable and attractive, while seeming to capture the essence of Google.

by André Resende

Although we changed the color layout slightly and moved the ‘g’ off center, his submission formed the basis for our new design.
Incorporating all four of Google’s colors (red, yellow, green, and blue) into the four corners of the favicon was a theme we liked in many submissions. We also saw this idea in the designs submitted by Hadi Onur Demirsoy, Lucian E. Marin, and Yusuf Sevgen (pictured below).

by Hadi Onur Demirsoy

by Lucian E. Marin

by Yusuf Sevgen

We hope you like the new favicon, which nicely integrates all of our original criteria: distinctive in shape, noticeable, colorful, timeless, and scalable to other sizes.

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