05/09/2015
Google's new logo is only 305 bytes, while its old logo is 14,000 bytes The old logo uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB (2,145 bytes). A simplified version of the new logo, on the other hand, can be constructed almost entirely from circles and rectangles (with the exception of the lower-case g): [ 325 more words. ]
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Tweet TweetGoogle’s new logo is only 305 bytes, while its old logo is 14,000 bytes The old logo uses a complicated serif font which can only be created using bezier curves. All together, it has 100 anchor points, resulting in a 6 KB (6,380 bytes) file. When compressed, the size comes down to 2 KB..…