Why did Google just change its logo?

When Mumbrella discovered that Google had made what seemed to be a small change to its logo this week, we went to Rich Curtis, CEO of FutureBrand Australia, to interpret what that meant in design language. For the record, the change involves the primary colours inside the “G”: they used to be separated by hard lines, now they blend into one another with gradients.

Why did Google change its logo?

Nobody seems to know.

Presumably the people at Google know, but they’re not telling.

The old Google (L) and the new (R)

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