Chromium Has A New Logo – And It’s Cool !

by Dinu on 08/03/2011

With today’s update on Chromium daily builds, the project and the chromium browser has a cool new logo. I loved it !!!! Here it is, for your viewing pleasure ! Â Let me know what you think !!!

update: Here some example of how Chrome’s new logo may look like.

Chromium New Logo

Chromium New Icon

Colors haven’t changed. But the icon is really shiny now ! Don’t forget to share this post guys !!!!!

Chrome New Logo

update : AsÂ carlosj pointed out in comments, this looks like a modified version of a new Chrome Web Store Icon forChromium New Tab Page.

Chromium Web Store New Logo

carlosj March 8, 2011 at 3:10 pm

it looks like the chromium icon on the chromium webstore icon:
http://www.google.com/images/icons/product/chromium_web_store-128.png

chrome story March 8, 2011 at 3:44 pm: hmm , yes, a shiny version of it may be ?

Adnan Hodzic March 8, 2011 at 3:37 pm

I’m not sure I liking this new logo :-/

chrome story March 8, 2011 at 3:44 pm: why ? what happened ?

Guest March 8, 2011 at 8:39 pm

Can somebody photoshop how the Canary and Chrome icon would look like in this style? Would be very nice!

chrome story March 8, 2011 at 9:03 pm

that’ll be interesting to see !!

link6155 March 10, 2011 at 7:49 am: You want a photoshop version for chrome?
here is the chrome one: http://7pmforums.co.cc/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=602.0;attach=650;image
I didn’t make a canary one, but i will soon

Kiran March 8, 2011 at 9:39 pm

I like the old version better. This new logo is looking a tad “boring”

chrome story March 8, 2011 at 9:45 pm: LOL … will it look better when they change colors and make original Google Chrome colors ?

Guest March 8, 2011 at 9:40 pm

It looks boring and ugly, but it looks simple and cool too!

chrome story March 8, 2011 at 9:45 pm: do you think it will look better with Chrome’s original colors ?

James March 8, 2011 at 11:49 pm

I think it looks nice, and it’s nice to have a change. By the way, do you think Chrome stable will be updated today (8th) for Pwn2Own? It’s a bit before 11:00 in California (Google’s place), and there’s been no update yet. The Chrome blog says about an update, but does not say the build.

James March 9, 2011 at 12:00 am

Oh, it looks like we already have 9.0.597.107 from earlier in the week.

James March 9, 2011 at 12:05 am

Oh no, it does say TODAY’S STABLE release, and that was two hours ago.

chrome story March 9, 2011 at 1:42 am

yes, we have a new Stable release today

James March 9, 2011 at 1:55 am: Yeah, v10! 10.0.648.127 to be precise. That’s quick, when were v9 stable and v10 beta released?

maldar March 9, 2011 at 12:35 am

I like the new logo, more clean.
( u should put the old logo in the post to compare)

noah March 9, 2011 at 1:09 am

just a rough version i tweaked in photoshop

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_xqDcvoJpLdY/TXaK1m4rrJI/AAAAAAAAAR0/mM9lXrN0gsQ/logo%20128.png

svinqVmraka March 9, 2011 at 1:27 am

Here’s my try, on the chrome colors.
http://tinypic.com/r/qntlra/7

James March 9, 2011 at 1:34 am

Good! It looks quite modern and stylish (as if I know about that).

chrome story March 9, 2011 at 2:41 am

this is good ::D

apruler2012 March 9, 2011 at 5:01 am: nice =D

chrome story March 9, 2011 at 2:04 am

@ James

I think somewhere here

http://chromestory.com/2011/02/settings-on-a-tab-now-beta-and-chrome-web-store-goes-global/

James March 9, 2011 at 2:13 am: 4 weeks and 5 days since v9 hit stable, so that was quick! This is obviously a Pwn2Own early release. Looking at it, they’ve made the sandbox stronger, but they have added more features (Crankshaft, chrome://settings and background web apps).

noah March 9, 2011 at 2:13 am

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_xqDcvoJpLdY/TXabZyZppZI/AAAAAAAAASE/YCX_M0PsRCY/192.png

a little better one and bigger too

chrome story March 9, 2011 at 2:41 am: cool

Kunna March 9, 2011 at 8:29 am

there’ no optional? absolutely dislike!

chrome story March 9, 2011 at 1:19 pm

if they are changing it on Chrome too, I doubt if there will be optional .. may be an extension can help ya ..

James March 9, 2011 at 10:20 pm: I doubt whether extensions will ever get that much permission. Anyway, you shouldn’t really be affected by it; how much do you actually see the logo in normal usage?

Gaurav Kumar March 10, 2011 at 12:37 pm

I haven’t like like this. Google needs to change it.

Razor1945 March 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

Check out Google Chrome New Logo!

http://www.frazpc.pl/b/275384
http://i.frazpc.pl/pliki/2002/board_temp/1299708436180058.jpg

chrome story March 10, 2011 at 9:06 pm

looks damn good !!!!!!!!!!

James March 10, 2011 at 11:01 pm

Hmm… I’m starting not to like that now.

chrome story March 10, 2011 at 11:10 pm

I’m gonna post this as soon as I get home

svinqVmraka March 10, 2011 at 11:22 pm

Yeah mee too, idk what’s wrong with it, I just like the old one better. Maybe those gradients between colors are the ugly thing about it IMO. Anyways I’m sticking with the Faenza icon for now

James March 12, 2011 at 3:01 am

Yes, the colours on this one are dull, and between colours they’ve tried to put a gradient, which doesn’t work. The TinyPic one is good though.

Guest March 12, 2011 at 6:05 pm: In the other discussion is a much better and less ugly hi-res version.

Cromado March 11, 2011 at 3:21 am

I love the old one, in relation to (possible) new icon/logo…

Well, here at 8 or 9 months I might get used to it!

But why the developers of the Chromium project don’t make an effort to solve usability problems?

No, a shiny new logo to reinforce the image and want to always be the best in the world. You have to have more HUMILITY!

James March 12, 2011 at 3:38 am

I don’t really think Chrome’s like that, you’re confused with Firefox. Just think about it though: all Google wants from this is for more people to use their search. Most people have Google as their default search engine, or navigate to google.com (unnecessarily) to search. They even got some free (I presume) advertising from Pet Plan. So that is not the concern. They just want more people using the web.

They’ve done that for a bit by publicising cloud computing (Docs, Gmail, Calendar and co.), but a while ago they realised that browsers could do with a shake up. And there you have Chrome, aiming for people to have a nicer experience when browsing. Also, they don’t just care about their own browser. All of the big browser news of late is exactly what Google need. Other browsers are being forced to become better and give a nicer experience.

It’s a brilliant plan, and it looks like it’s working. Just think how many times you’ve searched for “Firefox 4 release date” or “pwn2own”, or how many times you’ve done some browsing to find what’s on Chromestory and then gone on to search for something else on Google. Or just how many times you’ve done a bit of browsing because it’s nice.

By the way, sorry for going off topic. I thought someone would like my loosely-connected thoughts.

James March 12, 2011 at 3:52 am: For some reason, and connected to my last post, Bill Gates seems to have gone totally mad. Could someone please explain to me why in the UK there is a Microsoft advert discussing the advantages of cloud computing? If anyone has seen it, you may also recognise that that rubbish ad does not mention anything that could not be done without cloud computing. For those who don’t know, they basically do a bit of photo editing on a touch screen computer.

Oh, I get it! Microsoft are sending out this misinformation so that we think cloud computing is a needless and terrible system, thus more reliance on Office. So, I’ve answered my own question. Rant over.

Joshua Talley March 12, 2011 at 11:18 pm