Update 9/1/2015: And, of course, we now have a new (serif-less) iteration: Google recently changed its logo a little. Original file (SVG file, nominally 512 × 522 pixels, file size: 689 bytes). Android | Web Search (Custom Search Engine) | Images | Maps (My Maps) | News | Photos | Translate | TV | Videos | YouTube, Go | YouTube for iOS | Kids | TV | Music | Premium (Originals) | Rewind (Others) | Studio | Learning | YouTube Video Editor, Defunct: It wasn’t until 1997 that the Google we know today finally started taking shape. It is a search engine which allows you to change Google logo to your name. It does not meet the threshold of originality needed for copyright protection, and is therefore in the public domain . Finally, we’ve reached the logo of today. This newest iteration has stayed more or less the same since its first appearance, despite the occasional tweak. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. 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Calendar | Chat | Classroom | Currents | Drive (Docs | Sheets | Slides | Sites | Forms | Drawings) | Gmail | Groups | Meet | Sites | Keep | Jamboard | App Maker | Vault | Voice, Chrome Google’s humble beginnings were just starting to take shape on the servers of Stanford University in 1997. Defunct: Glass | Daydream, Development & Enterprise From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Now they’ve changed it a lot. Google decided to do a little color juggling in 1999, in addition to taking a page out of Yahoo’s book in the form of that damnable exclamation point—the latter of which was mercifully short-lived. This relatively brief revamping saw brighter colors and subtle shadow reduction. When it comes to logo design, sometimes you have to face-plant before you can fly. According to Kedar, “Brin and Page liked this because it looked a bit like a Chinese finger trap.”. ...The texture and shading of each letter is done in an unobtrusive way resulting in lifting it from the page while giving it both weight and lightness. In Kedar’s own words: There were a lot of different color iterations. The mapping platform offers not only satellite bird-eye views, but also provide the street views and public transport timetables. This version was a bit too busy for Sergey and Brin, though. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. And though it’s now largely been replaced, it can still be seen on some Google sites as a nostalgic Ghost of Google Past. This more refined iteration came from Sergey Brin himself, thanks to a little help from open source image editing suite GIMP. And in Google’s case, there’s been plenty of face-planting. Anniversary | Orkut | YouTube, Other Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. And any details on the person responsible for this particular masterstroke of word art are understandably sparse. Two Women In Traditional Dress Knitting The MIT Press Alternate History Aviation On Behance File:Ace Of Spades.svg Gaming The Iron Curtain SuperRadNow The MIT Press Alternate History Aviation On Behance File:Ace Of Spades.svg Gaming The Iron Curtain SuperRadNow This logo, too, was done in Catull—which would ultimately become the Google font we’ve come to know and love. Finally, Kedar landed on the deceptively simple winner. 1 Became a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Logopedia is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. But there was still room for Kedar to go even simpler yet—which ultimately brought her back to some of the first iterations and ITC Leawood.