Behind Google Favicon Change

You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t in 8.5 years(!). The reason is that we wanted to develop a set of icons that would scale better to some new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices. So the new favicon is one of those, but we’ve also developed a group of logo-based icons that all hang together as a unified set.

Read full post at Google Blog.

All images copyright by Google.

UPDATE: Submit yout favicon to Google. Thanks, benny chandra

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posted 07/06/08 10:48 PM.

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  1. Jauhari · 11/06/08 05:09 PM · #

    Just Perfect bro ;)

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