The Continent-based Logo 🌎

When creators want to have a little fun, they build something, which they don't put on display, but hide away in the details:

• The app icon of Apple's Voice Memos app shows the waveform of the sound that the word "Apple" makes if you speak it out loud.
• If you are trying to open a website while offline in Google Chrome, you can play a little platformer game with a T. Rex, if you press the space bar (you can also access it if you type chrome://dino in the address bar).
• For Instagram's 10-year anniversary, they introduced a hidden setting that let you change the app icon to the way it used to look in its glorious days (before the reign of Meta and before the short-lived web trend of colour gradients).

Creators like to call this little fun an "Easter egg".

The beauty of Easter eggs is this: if you don't notice them, you just don't notice them. Life goes on. If you do notice them, you may think to yourself: how very clever that they did that.

Here's my Easter egg. A logo that changes, based on the continent I'm currently on. I introduced it on my travel blog Niqs Reisen.

When I launched at the beginning of this year, its logo has been the emoji for planet Earth, showing Asia and Oceania, my first destinations. And it has been that way until two weeks ago, when I made it to the Americas.

When I arrived on the new continent, I changed my logo. It's still the emoji for planet Earth. But it now shows a different part of the world: North- and South America. Once I make it back to Europe, I'm going to change the logo yet again. The continent-based logo. Similar to a /where page, but in logo form.

I wonder if anyone notices. But in the end, it doesn't matter. I notice. And that's the beauty of Easter eggs. No matter if people notice, or they don't: everyone's happy.

I love Easter eggs! 🐇