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Those are the Windows colors. They predate Google.


Oh.

I wonder why Google chose those colours then? There was a rumour about their first server being made of various colours of lego bricks, but maybe someone put more thought into it...


Because it was designed by Sergey Brin[0], not a pro designer. They even had a Yahoo-esque exclamation mark in the beginning.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_logo


The full-saturation primary colors, plus green? Because they're obvious.


Aa





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