1999–2007 | 2007-2008 | 2008–2009 | 2009–2012 |
2012 | 2012–2014 | 2014–2015 | 2015-present |
1999–2007[]
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Google's favicon from May 31, 1999 to October 19, 2007, was a blue, uppercase "G" (which would be reused in the current favicon in 2015) on white background. It was accompanied by a border with a red, blue, and two green sides.
2007-2009[]
2007-2008[]
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On October 20, 2007, a new favicon was launched. It showed the lowercase "g" from Google's 1999 logo, colored in blue against a same color background as earlier background, and originally was intended to be a part of a larger set of icons developed for better scalability on mobile devices.
2008–2009[]
On May 30, 2008, a new favicon was launched. It had slightly less rounded corners, to look modern.
2009–2012[]
A new favicon was launched on January 9, 2009. It included a left-aligned white "g" with background areas colored in red, green, blue and yellow, with the top, bottom, and left edges of the "g" slightly cropped. It was based on a design by André Resende, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Campinas in Brazil. He submitted it for a contest launched by Google in June 2008 to receive favicon submissions. The official Google blog stated: "His placement of a white 'g' on a color-blocked background was highly recognizable and attractive, while seeming to capture the essence of Google". This icon still appears on some pages.
2012–2015[]
2012[]
The favicon used from August 13, 2012 to August 19, 2012, showed the small letter "g" in white, centered on a solid light blue background. This icon is basically an inverted version of the 2008 flat icon variant.
2012-2015[]
2012–2014[]
On August 20, 2012, the icon was slightly modified.
2014-2015[]
On May 24, 2014, the Google's icon was slightly updated, with the 'g' moved right one pixel. This icon was used until 2015. With this Google's layout was fully redesigned. Shortly on September 1, 2014, to coincide with Android Lollipop's release, Google introduced the new "Google dots".
2015–present[]
Following its logo change in 2015, the new Google icon now uses an uppercase "G" (similar to the 1999 logo) with the four colors from the new main logo.
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