Favicons Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties
The New Year’s Eve is a tricky time for designers. Some of us eagerly analyze deadlines, define milestones and refine the time schedule for the upcoming year. The other ones discover the need to update footers and copyright statements on their web-sites (by the way, have you actually replaced “2007″ with “2008″ in your footer?). Still, even on the January 1st passionate designers continue to strive for inspiration in order to come up with fresh ideas for the ongoing projects.
If the latter is your case, is there really a better way to find the inspiration rather than in a fine gallery of excellent favicons – our not that secret and very lively passion? We’ve written a lot about favicons in the previous articles. If you’d like to find more inspiration or find out more about how they are actually created, take a closer look at the following articles and showcases:
- Part 1: Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
- Part 2: Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons
- Part 3: Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful
- Part 4: Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork
Below you’ll find more examples of an excellent favicon design; we’ve collected these delicate beauties over the last three months.
Please notice that the favicons weren’t chosen simply because of their beauty; it’s been important to us that the favicon perfectly fits to the overall site design. All favicons are linked to the sites where they are used — you can click on them to get more insights into how favicon design can be related to the layout design.
50 Excellent Favicon Designs
This time our favourite favicon is the one used on a Russian web-site called Coalla. It’s a logo (a cute koala coala bear) cut in two halfs. Though it’s simple and uses only black and white, it looks surprising and funny, and is both appealing and memorable. In this case the idea matters more than the design itself.
And here are 49 more excellent Favicons:
Hrvoje
January 2nd, 2008 2:55 amVery interesting favicon layouts. Maybe some animated in the loop soon?
Reminds me I need to make one for myself again :-).
Take care and have more of this.
Hrvoje Livnjak
johno
January 1st, 2008 1:23 pmSM’s is pretty good too. I must change mine.
Congratulations on your success in 2007. Hoping that 2008 will be an even better year for you. SM is the best!
Polo
January 1st, 2008 1:36 pmThanks a lot for the link, happy new year :)
Mark
January 1st, 2008 4:41 pmI think the correct spelling is “Koala” Bear :)
Great list, thanks SM.
Kurt
January 1st, 2008 5:16 pmThanks for the link!
Chris Vincent
January 1st, 2008 6:10 pmWow, what a great selection… AGAIN
chris
January 1st, 2008 6:23 pm@mark: nope, click and follow the link, thats how they spell it.
Kathy
January 1st, 2008 6:38 pmI’ve been using this online favicon creator. It shows the result as you work on it, and you can save, publish and share.
http://www.favicon.cc/
cemiotika
January 1st, 2008 7:10 pmHappy new YEAR! smashing 2007, coming to smash 2008!,
Cheerz!,
Daniel
January 1st, 2008 7:31 pmI love favicons but these small icons don’t get the attention they deserve. Why don’t you install the favatars plugin so comments with websites shows them ?
Asher
January 1st, 2008 8:48 pmKoala is spelt with a k not a c. Calling it a Koala bear is incorrect as it is not a bear, in fact it is more closely related to the kangaroo.
meandyou
January 1st, 2008 11:05 pmNicely chosen favicons! Vote for Your favourites or ad new ones at the favicon directory – faviconize.com
Haobam
January 2nd, 2008 1:47 amI wonder when will technology allow us to put GIF icons… :)
bizri
January 2nd, 2008 3:15 amwow .. :) very inspiring, thanks SM!
Steve Ranford
January 2nd, 2008 4:24 amVery nice list again… good inspiration.
I quite like mine (shameless plug, I admit). First one I’ve ever done…
kerunt
January 2nd, 2008 9:04 amGreat collection!
However, the link for the hubpages.com is “semi-broken” – doesn’t point to the home page, but to a 404, instead. (You can still see the avatar.)
A bit too much CTRL-V I think ;)
Jeff Adams
January 2nd, 2008 1:07 pmI love this article, the colours on the favicons are useful too well done!!!
Rob Y
January 2nd, 2008 2:55 pmnice favicon Andy but ditch th etable layout :)
pingoogle
January 2nd, 2008 8:18 pmWow!!!!! cool favs!!! Inspiring. Thanks SM.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Jez
January 3rd, 2008 6:47 amIt’s actually wrong to use the word ‘bear’ too.
Lucian Marin
January 3rd, 2008 9:46 amMine is better :P
hakan
January 3rd, 2008 2:14 pmGreat post. Thanks for that!!!
Jauhari
January 4th, 2008 1:28 amSmall is Beautiful ;)
dharma
January 4th, 2008 6:16 amThe dharma site does have a small beautiful favicon…
Dieter
January 10th, 2008 6:36 amWow, thanks guys for mentioning my favicon, but I just changed it… my I should bring back the old one?
cat
January 10th, 2008 7:12 pmI really like your blog!
lily
January 10th, 2008 7:13 pmI really like your blog!
wes
January 10th, 2008 8:51 pmThis is a good list. I actually need to review my favicons having seen this list.
Dezign robtoz
February 13th, 2008 5:31 amExcellent collection of Fav Icons..Keep Going..I like tht Hypermax Icon
Forum Lover
March 8th, 2008 8:33 amCool set of favicons. I am wishing to use favicon too. Any1 can help creating one for me?
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