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Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons
Recently we’ve selected 50 Remarkable Favicons you can inspire yourself from. This follow-up is supposed to give you some more ideas for fresh, inspiring and creative favicon design.
Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can be displayed in the browser’s URL bar, next to the site’s name in lists of bookmarks, and next to the page’s title in a tabbed document interface. To be recognized immediately, favicons have to be visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page.
Below you’ll find over 45 more beautiful favicons, which can serve as a nice source for inspiration. You can click on favicons – they lead to the page, which uses the image as a page icon.
Rounded Elements
 | http://www.nathanbeck.co.uk |
 | http://www.formag.sk |
 | http://www.igalia.com |
 | http://www.keepyousafe.com |
 | http://www.bouyguestelecom.fr |
 | http://www.spiffycorners.com |
 | http://www.sailingteam.tv |
 | http://www.collanos.com |
 | http://www.silicasolar.com |
 | http://www.webjuicy.com |
Petal
 | http://9rules.com |
 | http://www.alsacreations.fr |
 | http://www.plum.com |
 | http://www.dappit.com |
 | http://www.oyogi.com |
 | http://www.ziki.com |
 | http://nationalgazette.org |
 | http://www.justinshattuck.com |
 | http://www.flixya.com |
Raster
 | http://www.accessify.com |
 | http://www.axialis.com |
 | http://www.techdirt.com |
 | http://web.eglois.com |
 | http://christoph.stoepel.net |
 | http://www.bluehost.com/ |
 | http://www.ouvaton.coop |
Dark
 | http://www.bloobseven.net |
 | http://www.bootlog.cl |
 | http://www.crobbo.com |
 | http://www.jamglue.com |
 | http://www.31three.com |
Squares
 | http://www.bittbox.com |
 | http://www.modxcms.com |
 | http://www.triplecrowncs.com |
 | http://www.yourminis.com |
Misc.
 | http://beta.chartu.com |
 | http://www.clearwired.com |
 | http://www.findory.com |
 | http://www.netvouz.com |
 | http://www.nuff-respec.com |
 | http://www.huasonic.com |
 | http://www.kaneva.com |
 | http://www.xing.com |
 | http://www.zerbit.de |
 | http://www.ignite-games.com |
Animated Favicons
Modern browsers can also show animated favicons, if the designer of a page provided some .gif-image as favicon. However, since the effect is sometimes obtrusive and disturbing, the animation is used rarely. Unless it’s used as shown in the example below. The effect remains subtle and surprising.
 | http://www.antilimit.com |
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- 2March 29th, 2007 10:12 pm
Just a heads up. The favicon for http://xiapdesign.com is actually the default bluehost.com favicon. If you don’t set one up yourself bluehost uses theirs. I only know this because I use bluehost and have changed it before.
- 3March 29th, 2007 10:41 pm
thanks ryan for pointig this out. exchanged urls.
- 4March 29th, 2007 11:57 pm
I’ve always liked my own favion but then again I’m biased :)
It used to be animated as well but I found that a bit distracting after a while…
- 5March 30th, 2007 4:50 am
None as great as mine! :)
- 6March 30th, 2007 12:23 pm
@BOB – Yours would have been better if it was rounded as the smiley face instead of odd shape and just cropped from the header image.
- 7March 31st, 2007 11:40 am
@3stripe
are you sponsored by adidas, or just use their logo?
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- 9April 2nd, 2007 7:48 am
I got one also I quite like :)
Great List! - 10April 3rd, 2007 9:48 pm
Nice list, thank you!
- 11April 4th, 2007 3:23 am
good list.
lots of variations i like the petals versions..Fav Icon Generator images > ico. might come in handy
- 12April 4th, 2007 6:53 pm
Grande BOOTLOG, estan buenos los favicons. Me gustaron los dark y los square.
Saludos
D. - 13April 4th, 2007 8:41 pm
two latinoamericans and chileans, that’s a great and pleasent surprise for us, great news for de chilean design. (again)
ce ache iiiiii!!!!!!!!! - 14April 11th, 2007 4:15 pm
nice to see a .cl there :D
- 15June 14th, 2007 10:45 pm
Nice, i am on the right way with my little favicon. :-)
- 16July 8th, 2007 7:40 pm
Nice icons! I liked Petal most of all.
- 17August 13th, 2007 11:33 pm
Totaally Sweet STUFF!
- 18August 14th, 2007 9:49 pm
Very nice icons.
- 19September 1st, 2007 4:53 pm
Smashing magazine has an awesome favicon :)
- 20November 22nd, 2007 7:25 am
i like rounded elements=]
- 21December 10th, 2007 4:37 pm
I have forgot about this feature, that webpage can have icon, i dont now why=] But now i will create icons for every webpage. Thanks for idea
- 22July 13th, 2008 3:41 pm
You can get an animated favicon if you can find the instructions at the Angel of the Garden’s favicon instruction page.
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Some are nice but far from original. The first one is a copy of the new waiting cursor of vista. Dappit looks a lot like the old Flash logo.