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Google Chrome Gets A New Logo

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Looks like Google is rebranding the logo for to look a little bit different in the latest development build. As you can see from the screenshot below which is from the latest development version, Chrome sports a new logo as compare to earlier versions.

New Google Chrome Logo

The screenshot below is from an earlier version of Google Chrome

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The newer logo is more flatter than the earlier one and does not have any spaces between the different colors and the ball in the middle. The grey delimiter has been replaced except for a circle around the blue ball.

I am not sure when this design change came through, but I would definitely prefer to see the older logo. What do you think? Which Chrome logo do you like among these two?

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  1. Shawn K on March 15th, 2011 at 11:47 pm #

    Perhaps they’re going to render it completely in HTML5. That would be a nice little way to show off the capabilities of the browser, even if most people don’t realize it.

    • VF on March 17th, 2011 at 8:15 am #

      As a graphic designer, I’d just like to say I think the new logo is much more fitting & modern looking. Less ’90s robotic feel. Love it!

    • Mark Rocha on March 18th, 2011 at 11:58 am #

      good thinking shawn – i like the silence after your comment! people very rarely see past the obvious.

  2. Nit Picker on March 16th, 2011 at 12:27 am #

    More flatter? More flatter? Please learn to write before attempting to blog.

    • Keith Dsouza on March 16th, 2011 at 12:46 am #

      @Nit – Thanks it has been corrected

      • Billie on April 27th, 2011 at 5:36 pm #

        I seriously applaud your politeness to what was such a rude comment. Errors happen when info is at the speed it is going. The social aspect of the web is here to help catch these tiny errors but people can still be kind whilst pointing them out.

  3. Meena on March 16th, 2011 at 5:02 am #

    that new logo seems so lame

  4. Yogesh on March 16th, 2011 at 5:58 am #

    Older logo looks better than this new one.

  5. sweffymo on March 16th, 2011 at 8:30 am #

    DO NOT WANT.

  6. Darrin Jenkins on March 16th, 2011 at 9:20 am #

    The older one is definitely better.

  7. Weldon Schultz on March 16th, 2011 at 9:25 am #

    The old one is better, no questions asked.

  8. josephhyunkim on March 16th, 2011 at 9:36 am #

    i personally like the new logo, simple and clean. the log before looked too much like a pokemon ball.

  9. Marleen on March 16th, 2011 at 11:46 am #

    The new design is terrible! Google, keep the older version, please.

  10. chris hill on March 16th, 2011 at 1:46 pm #

    they both look like the old kids game simon.

  11. Steve G on March 16th, 2011 at 2:22 pm #

    Looks like they used the same company that re-designed the GAP logo. FAIL!

  12. Robin Degen on March 18th, 2011 at 6:54 pm #

    What the hell.. that’s ugly as hell! The old one looks good and proffesional.. the other one looks so amateuristic.. it’s like a logo the local hobby club would have

  13. kroltan on March 18th, 2011 at 10:28 pm #

    The older is better, altrough i use Firefox for browsing, because it’s faster and safer (about 4 Beta, 3.6 is slow).

  14. Lance W on March 25th, 2011 at 4:31 pm #

    Older logo looks better
    New logo better fits the style of Chrome.

    I’m more leaning towards the old one here.

  15. Derek on March 28th, 2011 at 6:21 pm #

    I personally think the old one is better. The new one is too simple, and I think they also think it that way because in Chrome 12, they changed it back.

  16. Rick Flynn on March 29th, 2011 at 3:49 pm #

    New Logo – FAIL!
    Old Logo – WIN!!!!!

    The new logo seems to have the depth of a decal. The old logo literally has depth. Flat and featureless seems a step backward….My 2 cents.

  17. rohit on March 30th, 2011 at 1:28 am #

    New logo is better than new one………

  18. mattcarp on April 6th, 2011 at 9:38 pm #

    this is pretty stupid..

    it’s called google CHROME, and the logo used to look like it was chrome.

    DUH, now it’s not chrome. bad move.

  19. Phonse21 on April 27th, 2011 at 3:00 pm #

    Older better.
    New one = horrible. I think I will move towards another browser…

  20. Homework on April 27th, 2011 at 8:07 pm #

    AAAGGG this one is so stupid looking!!! I preferred the old one a lot more. It actually looked MODERN, and it was shiny. Now every time I click the icon to go online, I see this annoying reminder of how these stupid people just down-graded the look of google chrome. (WHY?! they’re SO FRIKIN STUPID!!!)

  21. David on April 28th, 2011 at 1:29 pm #

    Much better. The previous logo was too photorealistic. This is much more of a “mark” that can translate to multiple mediums and be instantly recognizable. It also could flatten to a simple four color and still look great.

  22. Jessica on April 29th, 2011 at 12:29 pm #

    I think the logo is brilliant, honestly. It completely stands out in the crowd of all the glossy, metallic, and 3-dimensional logos we’ve gotten so used to seeing for applications.

  23. Robin Degen on April 30th, 2011 at 8:05 am #

    Aaaah mine just changed when it updated to this new one. Its so horrible! Why google! WHYYY

  24. Chris Gen on April 30th, 2011 at 10:15 pm #

    Can we get the older logo back?

    oh, and I want the old iTunes logo back too. The new one is more silver, and the blue one stood out better, easier to spot.

    And more flatter is totally fine! lol thanks for the post!

    Chris Gen
    http://www.Youtube.com/streetenglishtv

  25. C. M. Sheffield on May 1st, 2011 at 4:51 pm #

    I hate the new logo. Sometimes I wonder how companies so big and with so many “professionals” fail to see the obvious.

    • brad on May 5th, 2011 at 9:00 pm #

      but they see more than you do. its an abstract capital G.

      • G-Systems on May 14th, 2011 at 12:37 pm #

        Hmmm… I hadn’t noticed that before; was so off-put by the loss of modernization in the new logo, that I hadn’t considered the new logo functional in any other artistic manner.

        Thanks! Now I appreciate it more…but I want the older logo back lol Maybe it’s the size…it feels too big and cartoonish.

        Glad to know that it’ll be changed back. Maybe they’ll find a happy medium by GC15… Although I’m hoping that by 20, they start working on a new name… Maybe: Google Silver or something that is some sort of progression from “Chrome”… (not Platinum–that’s used so much now that it has lost its luster)… Simply, version 50 of something seems weird…although it does imply a continued development…hmmm

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