The "g" Kagi logo is confusing. This is a serious branding problem.

fxgn

Desoroxxx no, it was just confusing to remember which is which. I personally clicked on the wrong tab many times because they all had the same logo with a different color. You have to constantly memorize "yellow=search, green=translate, purple=assistant" to navigate that

RoxyRoxyRoxy

fxgn To make things worse the forums are also purple so had the exact same favicon as Assistant 🙂

Thibaultmol

This has improved massively btw
We now have seperate icons for search, assistant, translate.

The Kagi logo is still the original though, don't expect that to change.

Desoroxxx

It’s getting better, but it's still very inconsistent:

For example translate still uses the old logo, the new one being used seemingly only in the quickswitch.

blahblahblahkagi

Kagi should make an optional “i” favicon instead of g for shits and giggles

lasu

Recently, the icon for kagi search was changed to this:

This is the previous version:

The previous icon had a bolder character with a special font. It was more colorful, distinct, and recognizable. The new icon is corporate, characterless, and most importantly, its not as easily distinguished in the browser tabs, especially for vertical tab users.

(Imagine the blue icon is yellow)

If reverting the icon is not possible, maybe they could implement a feature to choose a favicon in the settings including a few options like the previous icon. Otherwise, adding an orange background to the magnifying glass would also make it easier to distinguish in the browser tabs. Another new icon may also be an option.

erunaheru

I could get behind adding a background to the new icon, but I strongly oppose reverting to the old icon. It was odd and confusing to use a random letter g as the logo for a product that does not start with g.

RoxyRoxyRoxy

We've now changed our favicon across sites, though some would like the old one back. I'd like to rename this thread to be a more general favicon discussion thread, is that good with everyone?

lasu

The main complaints about the g I see are the following:

It is confusing since it's not the first letter of Kagi
It is mistaken for Google's previous logo

Firstly, I agree that not using the first letter is uncommon, but Google itself switched from uppercase G to lowercase g in 2008, due to better scalability on mobile devices, and kept the 4th letter until 2015. There are also other examples of companies not using the first letter: excite.com, spacex, onenote, linkedin, excel, etc. While it is uncommon, I personally think it's unique and original, which fits well with Kagi's identity.

For the second argument, while Google did use a lowercase g for many years, the font is completely different. Unlike Kagi's logo, it has two closed loops, as seen in the below pictures:

The g is also slanted a bit to the left in Google's logo, while Kagi's logo is more minimalistic and contains a magnifying glass tilted right within it. While both logos represent a lowercase g, that is the only real similarity. Additionally, they abandoned it over a decade ago, and people still believe that Google owns the lowercase letter g, despite the font being completely different. It shouldn't take that long to get used to.

I also want to add that although there are countless users who upvoted this post, I think the silent majority of users preferred the lowercase g, but simply didn't speak up about it, as they had no reason to go to kagifeedback. A poll could be created to see the user preference.

Alternatively, it may be possible to add an option to customize the favicon for those who confuse the g with Google's logo. Otherwise, a new logo could be used representing the mascot, but this will be difficult to pull off to be recognizable like Firefox or Github, so the mascot would have to be simplified extensively. To be distinguished in the tabs. The magnifying glass in the current state is difficult to recognize among the tabs, and is not good for scalability to different devices which have small favicons.

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