{"id":182,"date":"2009-01-10T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T14:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/?p=182"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:37:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:37:09","slug":"google-favicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2009\/01\/google-favicon","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s Favicon: Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/googles-new-favicon.html\">Google\u2019s new favicon is horrible!<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lib\/images\/2009\/google-favicon-20090110.png\" alt=\"\"\/> The final icon<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>According to the Google blog, the icon was based on a submission from Andr\u00e9 Resende, which I think looks better than the final version. However, I still think both are absolutely horrible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/lib\/images\/2009\/google-favicon-andre-20090110.png\" alt=\"\"\/> Andr\u00e9 Resende\u2019s original submission<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>As you can see, Google shifted the \u2018g\u2019 from the centre to the far left making it look unbalanced. Overall, I find it rather displeasing to the eye.  I guess I will have to find some way to either block the icon entirely or make my browser use a custom icon instead.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s new favicon is horrible!","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}