Since its creation, Google It had a good number of logos. The one we see today was designed by Kedar Ruth and is based on the Catull typeface. But the colors… what origin do the colors of the Google logo have? Read the following article Super curious and you will find out!
A little history
Today, Google is much more than a simple colorful logo. Its excellent reputation is largely due to the high potential of its ever-growing technology, but perhaps, without its visual simplicity, it would not have reached what it is today, given that in Google what matters is the information.
So much so, that the majority of Internet users they choose Google as their homepage to avoid countless other search engines that end up tiring us as the days go by. Several logos have passed through this company until in May 2010 we found a completely redesigned logo. It maintains a similar typography to previous versions but with a slightly greater thickness, the colors are identical and even in the same order as well.
The main detail of this new design is that the effect of drop shadows has been eliminated. The shadows inside the letters are fainter, which creates a feeling of a Logo cleaner and more modern.
Google colors
Because the google colors? The answer is very simple: Google took the colors from the famous Lego colored brick game. The colors blue, red, yellow and green are due to that game since the first computer used by the Google founders (Sergey Brin and Larry Page) to give life to this wonderful undertaking, it was based on Lego pieces.
It is so that the Google founders They found the need to manufacture a CPU with ten hard drives and a structure made up of colored pieces of the lego game. A solution that could have seemed totally provisional and even improvised, has become a curious story and, what seems even more important, one of the most convenient and beneficial instruments at the service of millions of Internet users.