And it appears to be a lowercase serif g as opposed to the uppercase sans-ish G we’re used to. Interestingly Google claims it’s purple even though it looks blue to me.
“Hi! I’m little g, big G’s little brother. Ya know, the guy the between the yellow o and the green l?”
I wonder if we’ll see a new lowercase Google logo soon. Maybe the marketing geniuses over there thought the capital G was too intimidating, and that a lowercase g was more appropriate for the company’s purely imaginary “underdog” persona.