Anyone else hate Google's new icon?

How come I ain’t getting it? I get other favicons

It’s not important enough for me to have any reaction other than “Hrm. Google has a new favicon.”

Don’t care. Wouldn’t have thought about it. Care more about badly designed functions than logos.

shrug Is this really something important enough to care about? I didn’t even know those little icons had a name. “Favicon” eh. Go figure.

I like it.

I just wanted to use this thread to post my pet theory that Google is really Skynet. Just wait about 10 years before the Terminators come.

Actually it was designed by some noob off the street, who may not have been paid for it at all, though I hope he was, as what he designed was actually quite nice.

But then they changed his design into an off-centre, ugly, piece of crap.

Now that I see that, I do too. I wonder why they changed it? (In particular, moving the ‘g’ so far off center)

I dislike it. Bring back the blue uppercase G!

It reminds me of the old NBC peacock.

Thanks for the link GuanoLad. I’m glad to hear that some Madison Avenue mogul didn’t get paid multi-mega-millions to draw such a hideous image. I completely missed the “g” for the longest time. The original art is much better.

I actually prefer Andre’s version of the little g, and the more recent little blue g, to the original big blue G (which always struck me as a bit squished on the bottom and awkwardly shaped.)

IMO, the “fixed” version of the new logo is hard to look at because it has no dark tones to it and no shading, and of course the off-centering strikes me as trying too hard.

I like it cause it catches my eye when I look for it and I don’t cornfuse it with another…

Yes, I hate it with a passion. Google needs to fucking pick something and stick with it. I miss the G… :mad:

The ‘G’ is still there.

Yeah, but now it’s a “g.” Not the same. I also liked some of the other ones on that blog page. Whoever was in charge of the final decision went with the worst of all worlds.

Hate it.

I thought it was a glitch so I reinstalled Opera. It looks terrible. It doesn’t seem to show up in Firefox though.

Agreed that the new one is fugly.

Agreed that it was okay as submitted, before Google fuglification.

You’d think Google would have wanted to protect the previous version, kind of like the companies that trade under one-letter abbreviations on the NYSE. I don’t know how much competition there is on the streets of Favicon City but it seems like another dotcom could now use a similar simple, elegant G and make it their own.

I hate it too. It looks like something a kindergartener would design.