Google Changed Its Logo This Weekend

May 27, 2014

If you were browsing the internet at all this past weekend, there's a good chance you came across Google's ubiquitous logo at some point during your travels. What you probably didn't notice, however, is the fact that Google adjusted the letters in it's logo ever so slightly—and it actually makes a pretty huge difference.

As any good design nerd knows, lazy kerning can be the source of a major headache. And nothing feels better than seeing those letters pushed, pixel by pixel, into their proper place. In Google's case the bottom of the"l" and "e" didn't quite lineup, and as redditor nal1200 noted, "[That] must have driven some design employee crazy." To fix it, Google moved the "g" one pixel to the right and the "l" one pixel down.