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Google Chrome Logo Inspiration

September 7th, 2008 by David Bradley >> 8 Comments

thinkfree-office-logoWondering where you’d seen that Google Chrome logo before? Was it the proto-electronic game Simon? A Pokeball? Or was it the original ThinkFree Office logo shown here?

Find out which answer ThinkFree thinks

While you’re here you can read my post on taking the shine off Google Chrome or go straight to the download Google Chrome page. Thanks to labnol’s Amit Agarwal for bringing this video to my attention.


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  • Wayne Smallman // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Yeah, I saw this over the weekend. It is a little strange, to say the least!

  • David Bradley // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    It is indeed…did you notice you favicon.ico shows up next your name on Sciencetext comments now?

  • Wayne Smallman // Sep 8, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    Yes I did.

    Ironic, really. My icon doesn’t show up on my own blog properly…

  • David Bradley // Sep 8, 2008 at 9:02 pm

    I’ll be discussing the favicon plugin and the new logo later…got a sequence showing how I created it. I need to either make it wider or push it left and add a search/email box top right, but it’s late, so that will have to wait.

  • Jo // Sep 8, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    Hmm, it does look quite a bit like it. Unusual logo anyway – it’s the least chrome-y thing I’ve ever seen, compared with this
    http://www.9jcg.com/tutorials/mario_malagrino/chrome_material/chrome_material_01_large.jpg

    They could have saved themselves the hassle and just googled “chrome” as I did ;-)

  • David Bradley // Sep 9, 2008 at 7:16 am

    Yes, if the Google Chrome logo is the least chromy thing anyone’s seen (it looks like plastic sprayed with metallized paint), then that graphic to which you linked is definitely very, very chromy. Anyway, they obviously chose the word Chrome because that’s what the gray menu parts in a browser window are called but I presume they forgot about the negative connotations of chromium(VI) (re Erin Brockovitch).

  • Aryan // Oct 18, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Google chrome today is the best thing in the browsing arena. Internet explorer is gradually fading from the people’s mind, (at least mine), the smoothness of google chrome is just commendable. It is clear that IE just can’t stand against chrome.

  • David Bradley // Oct 18, 2008 at 8:29 am

    @Aryan Google Chrome is neat and tidy, but I’m afraid you’re ill informed if you think that Internet Explorer is fading away. Chrome has taken less than a percentage of the browser share. Firefox has grown, but IE remains the main browser being used to surf the net.