New "Google Chrome Logo" leaked? | Hacker News Reader

New "Google Chrome Logo" leaked?

digitizor.com

14 pointsdkd90318 comments

The new Chromium logo looks good, while the new Chrome logo looks fake. The muddied blending between green and red looks awful, and can't be taken seriously.

You can also see how the subtle highlights are done far better in the new Chromium one. It looks like someone just slapped low-opacity radial gradients on the Chrome version.

This alleged new one is more on-brand than the old one. It matches Google's simplicity better. I think it also gets away from the "evil robotic eye" feel, which can be an image problem for a ubiquitous tech company.

That said, I like the old one a lot better.

It's Leaked?! I wonder what fate awaits the whistle-blower who exposed this totally secret branding-campaign. Marketing department will hold him in solit-conf, and beat him with a wet towel between simulated drownings.

In my humble opinion, this looks like a step backwards. Their current logo looks much slicker and more professionally-designed than the speculated new logo.

This article doesn't look very ensuring. Every link in the text is a link in the site itself or one of the in-text ads. The frazpc.pl link looks no more convincing to me. I could be wrong...

The concept is ok but the execution is poor. Fake.

They need to change it more than that--it's always looked like the Windows Media Player logo to me. http://www.fipr.state.fl.us/images/windows-media-player-logo...

http://yfrog.com/f/h6usmp/

That's the new logo that I saw posted on another forum by a Chrome engineer.

non-3d-logo's look really ugly in OSX's dock.

After keeping the close-tab button on the right, I say that they don't really care how Chrome fits into OS X at all.

It seems as if they insist on the same out-of-place UI behaviour as Apple apps such as iTunes/Quicktime on a PC.

If it makes you feel better, the integration with Ubuntu is crap as well. Chrome is doing so many things really well, weird that they can't be bothered about OS integration.

Why would they be when they're turning Chrome into an OS?

I thought the original logo was bad. This is even worse. I personally think Google has really bad taste overall.

I like the new one better; the 2D version makes it look less like a Simon game.

I hope not. It isn't as flashy or eye catching. It is too simple

Reminds me of MIT Media Labs's new logo.

I hope not!

Reply on news.ycombinator.com