Google Favicon
You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, that little graphic that appears ahead of a site’s URL in a browser’s location field. (Slaw has a white ‘sl’ in a blue square, for instance.) Turns out that Google wasn’t changing for the sake of change, but in order to accommodate the various new modalities that now use browsers — PDAs, iPhones, cell phones etc. They’re in the hunt for one that will scale well and look good in various contexts.
The ones they’re testing now belong to this family:
As you might imagine, choosing a new mini-logo for one of the world’s giant corporations is no easy thing. Google considered a whack load of possibilities, some of which they’ve posted on the Official Google Blog:
I can’t say I’m enamoured of any of them. And maybe Google feels the same way, because they want feedback and, it would seem, your proposed alternative designs:
[W]e really value feedback from users and want to hear your ideas that we may have missed. If you have your own notions about the Google favicon, please send them to us. We’ll do our best to work them in, and maybe your idea will be the one that people see billions of times per day.
I noticed the new favicon when I opened up my browser a couple days ago. I like the blue “g” as it is simple, memorable, and scales decently. It is notoriously difficult to get a sleek-looking image into 16×16 pixels. Currently on my site I’m just using a scaled down image that renders particularly poorly in 16X16 until I can hire a graphic designer to overhaul my entire website theme, including favicon.
Hello
A Favicon is useful in the Firefox Bookmarks ToolBar.
After adding a site to the toolbar:
Right click on it
Click on Properties
Delete the text in the Name field
Click on Save changes
You are left with the icon on the Toolbar. This permits
you to have more sites visible in the toolbar. Handy if
you can remember what they all are for, but there may be
some that you would want text with.
Kindest regards,
John Eddie Kerr
Wellington Law Library
Guelph, Ontario
John – I do the same thing. It allows you to quickly access a ton of bookmarks with just one click. I get people asking me all the time how I set it up – it’s fabulous!
Hey guys, thefaviconshomepage.com already hosts the brand new google favicon!