Google has introduced a new logo today. Just a month after
unveiling a major restructuring of the company, Google is updating its
image, too.
The new Google logo is still a wordmark, but it’s now using a
sans-serif typeface, making it look a lot more modern and playful. The
colors are also softer than they used to be. The logo bears a bit more
resemblance to the logo of Google’s new parent company, Alphabet, as
well.
Alphabet’s wordmark has a similarly unadorned look, and this update makes the two companies’ design language fall more inline.
As Google’s video introducing the new logo notes, the wordmark has
been evolving ever since it was created in 1998. But this is easily its
biggest change since 1999, when Google first cleaned up the lettering
and settled on its four colors. Since then, the logo has just been
flattened out more and more, with today’s update representing a huge
leap. In addition to changing up the wordmark, Google is also changing
the tiny “g” logo that you see on browser tabs. It’s now going to be an
uppercase “G” that’s striped in all four of Google’s colors. Google says
that the new design will be rolling out across all of its products soon
— in fact, it’s already on Google’s homepage, with a cute animation
that wipes away the old logo and draws in the new one.
THE NEW LOGO IS MEANT TO REFLECT THE NEW WAYS PEOPLE VISIT GOOGLE
So why did Google decided to make the change? In a blog post, Google
discusses how much technology has changed how we interact with its
products and with the internet at large. It doesn’t really settle on a
specific reason that a redesign was needed, but it says that this logo
should better reflect the reality that Google is no longer a site you
visit on a desktop computer — it’s a huge collection of sites, apps, and
services that you visit on PCs, Chromebooks, smartphones, and anywhere
you can find a web browser. Google writes that its new logo is meant to
reflect “this reality and [show] you when the Google magic is working
for you, even on the tiniest screens.”
Making the logo look good on small screens seems to have been a major
consideration. The new, simpler lettering is supposed to scale better
to smaller sizes, making the wordmark more distinct and easier to read.
It’s also supposed to be easier for Google to display on low-bandwidth
connections: Google says that it’s made a version of its logo that’s
“only 305 bytes, compared to our existing logo at ~14,000 bytes.” Given
that one of new Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s big goals is to bring the
internet — and Google, of course — to areas of the globe that don’t
already have it, that small difference is definitely going to be an
important one.
You can also see the new Google “G” beginning to appear across its
services. Among the more notable is Google+, which is now represented by
a big colorless version of the new G.
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