Favicon Episode 6: Black, Abstract and Hand-Drawing
Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find only if you are looking for them or search we stumble through your bookmarks. We’ve written enough about favicons in our recent posts. If you’d like to find out more about them, feel free to take a look at our previous posts:
- Episode 1: Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons
- Episode 2: Inspire Yourself: More Creative Favicons
- Episode 3: Creative Favicons: When Small Is Beautiful
- Episode 4: Creative Favicons: Tiny Artwork
- Episode 5: The Delicate Beauties
Below you’ll find 50 more outstanding little pieces of art. Please notice that these favicons weren’t chosen simply because of their beauty; it’s been important to us that the favicon perfectly fits to the site design or its content. All favicons are clickable and lead to the sites where they are used.
50 Outstanding Favicons
Compared to its colleagues, UnLtdWorld‘s favicon deserves particular attention. What you see below is a favicon with a 3D-effect; such a result within 32×32px area in .ico is indeed fine art.
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UnLtdWorld |
And here are 49 more excellent favicons. Let’s start with the black ones.
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History of Aviation |
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Picky Surfer |
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Grafikcache |
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Agencia Publicidad Marketing |
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Francesco Brancato |
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Denk-Licht, this favicon stands for the site layout |
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Elfnullfünf |
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Connectio Cube |
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Coolmix |
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Iceberg |
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Fabio Riglietti |
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Envero |
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ZAB Design |
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Grow Studio |
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Aenonfire |
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Sideshow |
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Flash |
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Dirty.ru |
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Jobster |
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Sean Kenney |
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gd labs |
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imlousekStudio |
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Unstoppable Robot Ninja |
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Pixels with Pigtails |
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Hire a Designer |
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Labgfx |
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Lightfin |
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Hype! |
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Limelight Networks |
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Loudmouf Records |
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365° |
Favicons in Hand-Drawing Style
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Smoothieland |
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Brand New |
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Grow Veg, apparently this favicon is a tomato. |
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Suck UK, an online-shop |
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Ogilvy Durham |
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x-Grafik, design from Slovakia |
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Sky View Parc, a real estate company |
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Makao |
Brian
March 21st, 2008 2:59 am“Gro
vVeg, apparently this favicon is a tomato.” ….should be “Grow Veg…” quick, fun little list – thanks!Skeku
March 21st, 2008 3:19 amLove “Hire a Designer ” and “Agencia Publicidad Marketing” (very funny haha)
Bumbo
March 21st, 2008 3:32 amIMHO it is all about quality of logotypes
jussi
March 21st, 2008 3:39 amKeep up the good work! I’m a fan!
Shaun
March 21st, 2008 3:59 amI love these, thanks :]
Brandi
March 21st, 2008 4:36 amWhoa! Thanks for featuring my favicon on your list (pixels with pigtails)! This is truly one of my favorite design blogs, so it’s quite an honor ;-) I’m a big fan of cropping and negative space, so that played into my design decisions for a new favicon heavily. It amazes me how many people never even notice these icons…where do they think the picture next to their bookmarked items comes from?
ahnShev
March 21st, 2008 6:14 amnice colection. thanks.
damek
March 21st, 2008 6:48 amnice favicon
Ryan
March 21st, 2008 7:53 amGrow studio is just using a custom shape that comes with photoshop…
steven
March 21st, 2008 11:48 ami personally love the hand drawn ones …
pusulaweb
March 22nd, 2008 1:23 amsuper iconsss
zoltan
March 22nd, 2008 9:00 amthanx a lot!
Shane
March 22nd, 2008 11:16 amVery nice indeed. Thanks for the list.
Nastya Manno
March 22nd, 2008 12:37 pmI like the handcrafted icons. Simple and beautiful. Thanks!
New to site
March 22nd, 2008 3:48 pmWhy would you feature grow studio’s favicon? It’s a default shape in Photoshop that they skewed vertically. It doesn’t look like it took any thought and probably about 10 seconds to “design”.
Bingo
March 22nd, 2008 5:54 pmnice icons…
i come across this site… everonsoft.com these icon is nice and delicate too
Mike
March 23rd, 2008 10:07 amThose favicons are great for inspiration! Thanks a lot!
D Champ
March 23rd, 2008 1:58 pmThere is always room for 50 more beautiful favicons! Unlimited World indeed deserves to be exposed. As I can see in past year or so, more and more smaller sites are taking time to custom made their favicons. It looks like favicon industry is moving into micro-art direction.
Evo08
March 23rd, 2008 4:04 pmThese are great , thanks for sharing !
dharma
March 23rd, 2008 10:02 pmwow, pixel perfection. Very nice… I am a fan!
ptamaro
March 24th, 2008 4:38 amFavicons can be tough to do, but always well worth the effort because they add a lot of “polish” to your design. These are great, thanks…
a
March 24th, 2008 6:55 amThanks, Really Great!
Fashionistatv
March 24th, 2008 11:03 amBefore I start any project I come to SM. I use at least one tool in your sidebar daily….thanks for this inspirational favicon post, looking forward to another round of CSS postings!
CMSTheme
March 24th, 2008 4:23 pmIt might be small, but Favicon also plays an important roles in buidling the site’s character.
Great post!
pingoogle
March 25th, 2008 1:56 amWow!!!
Thanks
Dave Lane
March 25th, 2008 8:17 amthese are really beautiful icons!
to be picky, i only see 40 here….
Robert Bardou
March 25th, 2008 9:04 am365° – is there a mistake in list of 50 Outstanding Favicons, the last one. It can’t be 365°. There are only 360°. :)
Eureka
March 25th, 2008 5:57 pmNice, i am on the right way with my little favicon. :-)
Kyle
March 26th, 2008 1:14 pmThe Grow Studios one is just a default Photoshop shape :(
Callie
April 1st, 2008 3:58 pmThanks for the nod to Ogilvy Durham! Love the compliments.
Mikel
May 1st, 2008 12:45 pmCan anyone provide me with a link to a tutorial that shows how to add these icons to your url. I am using Dreamweaver 8.
Thanks!
masterza
September 23rd, 2008 2:59 amSmall icons for the site is cool, thank you!
growstudio
October 19th, 2010 9:03 pmLovely icons!