{"id":1545,"date":"2008-06-06T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T06:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/googles-new-favicon\/"},"modified":"2008-06-08T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T23:02:12","slug":"googles-new-favicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/googles-new-favicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s New FavIcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how many of you have noticed Google&#8217;s new favorite icon (aka favicon or shortcut icon):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Google's FavIcon\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically the little icon that shows up next to your address bar or the icon that gets saved when you try to bookmark a page. Anyway, when I first saw it a couple days ago, I was confused which site actually uses that icon and when I realized it was Google, I was even more confused. It used to be a capital &#8216;G&#8217; on white background with and blue border. Now, it&#8217;s the little &#8216;g&#8217; in the 4th letter of Google. What confused me was that it was in on a gray background, and due to the style of the &#8216;g&#8217;, it reminded me of some soap or shampoo logo.<\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2008-06-06T06:33:24+00:00\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/ins>: It turns out it&#8217;s only gray because it&#8217;s using transparency. On a gray background, it&#8217;s gray. On a white background, it&#8217;s white. The tabs on Firefox by default are gray, hence:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/17981-1\/google-favicon.png\" alt=\"Google's FavIcon\" height=\"20\" width=\"44\" \/><\/p>\n<p><ins datetime=\"2008-06-08T23:01:12+00:00\"><strong>Update #2<\/strong><\/ins>: Thanks to RayAlome for pointing me to the official Google blog entry of their new favicon: <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/one-fish-two-fish-red-fish-blue-fish.html\">One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure how many of you have noticed Google&#8217;s new favorite icon (aka favicon or shortcut icon): It&#8217;s basically the little icon that shows up next to your address bar or the icon that gets saved when you try to bookmark a page. Anyway, when I first saw it a couple days ago, I was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/googles-new-favicon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google&#8217;s New FavIcon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[634,635,637,636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}