Why are Browser Icons Round and Blue?
Voltage Creative asked an interesting question:
Every single (even moderately successful) [note: except Opera] web browser’s logo has been round… Why?
Some plausible explanations:
- IE was a blue rounded icon and everybody just followed suit
- The globe is the best representation of the Internet (and it’s round and blue)
I tend to concur with the blue-globe metaphor explanation – if you look at most of those icons, there are explicit globes in it and you can’t quite have a square globe, can you? Which leads me to think – is there any better metaphor apart from the globe for the Internet?
Could you tell me the browser’s name of the logo in the right down corner?
Hi Fernando,
That’d be Camino (http://caminobrowser.org/)
Netscape’s logo was square, the sky in the background