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
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http://www.nathanbeck.co.uk |
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http://www.formag.sk |
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http://www.igalia.com |
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http://www.keepyousafe.com |
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http://www.bouyguestelecom.fr |
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http://www.spiffycorners.com |
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http://www.sailingteam.tv |
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http://www.collanos.com |
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http://www.silicasolar.com |
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http://www.webjuicy.com |
Petal
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http://9rules.com |
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http://www.alsacreations.fr |
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http://www.plum.com |
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http://www.dappit.com |
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http://www.oyogi.com |
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http://www.ziki.com |
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http://nationalgazette.org |
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http://www.justinshattuck.com |
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http://www.flixya.com |
Raster
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http://www.accessify.com |
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http://www.axialis.com |
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http://www.techdirt.com |
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http://web.eglois.com |
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http://christoph.stoepel.net |
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http://www.bluehost.com/ |
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http://www.ouvaton.coop |
Dark
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http://www.bloobseven.net |
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http://www.bootlog.cl |
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http://www.crobbo.com |
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http://www.jamglue.com |
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http://www.31three.com |
Squares
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http://www.bittbox.com |
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http://www.modxcms.com |
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http://www.triplecrowncs.com |
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http://www.yourminis.com |
Misc.
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http://beta.chartu.com |
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http://www.clearwired.com |
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http://www.findory.com |
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http://www.netvouz.com |
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http://www.nuff-respec.com |
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http://www.huasonic.com |
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http://www.kaneva.com |
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http://www.xing.com |
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http://www.zerbit.de |
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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.
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http://www.antilimit.com |
Sven Lennartz Co-Founder of Smashing Magazine. Former writer, web designer, freelancer and webworker. Author of several books.
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Nibbler
March 29th, 2007 3:25 pmSome 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.
Ryan Imel
March 29th, 2007 10:12 pmJust 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.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz
March 29th, 2007 10:41 pmthanks ryan for pointig this out. exchanged urls.
3stripe
March 29th, 2007 11:57 pmI’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…
Bob
March 30th, 2007 4:50 amNone as great as mine! :)
Jermayn Parker
March 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.
egojab
March 31st, 2007 11:40 am@3stripe
are you sponsored by adidas, or just use their logo?
Ben Parsons
March 31st, 2007 8:05 pmI realise it’s quite busy, but I like the animated Poke London logo.
Alex Mos
April 2nd, 2007 7:48 amI got one also I quite like :)
Great List!
OverZero.it
April 3rd, 2007 9:48 pmNice list, thank you!
Chaoskaizer
April 4th, 2007 3:23 amgood list.
lots of variations i like the petals versions..
Fav Icon Generator images > ico. might come in handy
David
April 4th, 2007 6:53 pmGrande BOOTLOG, estan buenos los favicons. Me gustaron los dark y los square.
Saludos
D.
Jaime Ayala
April 4th, 2007 8:41 pmtwo latinoamericans and chileans, that’s a great and pleasent surprise for us, great news for de chilean design. (again)
ce ache iiiiii!!!!!!!!!
rikzun
April 11th, 2007 4:15 pmnice to see a .cl there :D
mom
June 14th, 2007 10:45 pmNice, i am on the right way with my little favicon. :-)
Roman
July 8th, 2007 7:40 pmNice icons! I liked Petal most of all.
webmaster
August 13th, 2007 11:33 pmTotaally Sweet STUFF!
Konin
August 14th, 2007 9:49 pmVery nice icons.
Dugu
September 1st, 2007 4:53 pmSmashing magazine has an awesome favicon :)
isk
November 22nd, 2007 7:25 ami like rounded elements=]
Baltic
December 10th, 2007 4:37 pmI 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
Amyobus Key
July 13th, 2008 3:41 pmYou can get an animated favicon if you can find the instructions at the Angel of the Garden’s favicon instruction page.