Comments on: Google’s Favicon Redesigned http://tylersticka.com/2009/01/googles-favicon/ Portfolio and journal of the award-winning designer, artist, speaker and educator specializing in web, icon and logo design, particularly in new media. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:41:45 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John Brown http://tylersticka.com/2009/01/googles-favicon/#comment-13 John Brown Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:30:39 +0000 http://tylersticka.com/?p=521#comment-13 Yes, the new icon is clunky to me and doesn't read at all as the Google brand I have grown to love over the years. So much so that I kept getting frustrated by my web browser because I kept glancing over the tabs and thinking I had closed the Google search tab again and again. Then, I stopped and observed, and realized what they had done. I don't like it, not one bit. Yes, the new icon is clunky to me and doesn’t read at all as the Google brand I have grown to love over the years. So much so that I kept getting frustrated by my web browser because I kept glancing over the tabs and thinking I had closed the Google search tab again and again. Then, I stopped and observed, and realized what they had done.

I don’t like it, not one bit.

]]> By: Tyler Sticka http://tylersticka.com/2009/01/googles-favicon/#comment-12 Tyler Sticka Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:14:13 +0000 http://tylersticka.com/?p=521#comment-12 If you dig the old icon, you can use the Greasemonkey script on which mine is based, <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27548" class="out" rel="nofollow">Google's Old Favicon</a>. If you dig the old icon, you can use the Greasemonkey script on which mine is based, Google’s Old Favicon.

]]> By: matt lohkamp http://tylersticka.com/2009/01/googles-favicon/#comment-11 matt lohkamp Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:03:30 +0000 http://tylersticka.com/?p=521#comment-11 You're spot-on with the red-green thing - I hadn't realized it, but that's totally a factor in my dislik, along with a general 'don't fix it if it isn't broken' mentality. I actually honestly liked the old capitol 'G' - it was the first letter of their logo, plain and simple and recognizable. the lower-case 'g' was a little more 'tech' and '2.0', but I didn't (and don't) think Google needed it - and the new one is just puzzlingly disappointing. You’re spot-on with the red-green thing – I hadn’t realized it, but that’s totally a factor in my dislik, along with a general ‘don’t fix it if it isn’t broken’ mentality. I actually honestly liked the old capitol ‘G’ – it was the first letter of their logo, plain and simple and recognizable. the lower-case ‘g’ was a little more ‘tech’ and ‘2.0′, but I didn’t (and don’t) think Google needed it – and the new one is just puzzlingly disappointing.

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