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Thats just amazing :D I really love this one. It is practical and gave me some great ideas for doing a website :D

Some great examples of great design in such a small space, plus seeing my own favicon there is awesome.

I use a photo turned to a .fav as my favicon on my site. I think Favicons have become kind of like .. a business card. They tell you what site you’re on visually before people really even read. When I have multiple tabs open in FireFox, it’s the easiest and fastest way for me to tell what is what. Since I’m illiterate.

You can see my favicon in action at http://www.taddmencer.com if you’re interested in seeing.

I like the big coloured G… Google should consider to adopt this one!

Can the favicons be animated?

Thank you very much for mentionning my website again. =)

salle polyvalente’s favicon makes me sick!

Check mine, it’s animated and lovely :)

http://www.monsieurlam.com/

Thank you for including the iphone lemurs favicon!

“Extremely Colorful” should read “extremely annoying”. It’s like a horrible little banner ad only I didn’t “win” anything.

The rest though are fantastic.

The Google’s alternative icon looks like Windows Media Player icon. Don’t you see it?

Another good collection of favicons. Although Google’s favicon may be ugly, does it really matter. A good favicon should stand out from the rest, which Google’s does and should be closely linked to the website. The Google favicon has had so much publicity, everyone knows it stands for Google!

BTW Aren’t the animated icons cheating seeing as they are actually animated gifs as opposed to true icons.

I think the one at Ploc Media is pretty neat, simple but bold.

Thanks for the mentioned :-)

I think the old Google favicon was more effective on a small scale.

I especially like Our Type and Fakeblog.

I still prefer the present G icon. Much easier on eyes and less obstrusive ;)
nice article though …

hello smashing, these are cool favicon.

could you also list some software that are specifically designed to design favicon. thanks.

Google is not about pretty. Google is about recognition. I find all of the three alternatives that your provider of art for the favicon replacement of google’s favicon to be less readable as the Google brand. Lets remember a favicon is meant to be apart of brand recognition. And it may not be tied to a piece of type it has to exist on it’s own so to speak. Ultimately it’ll live in bookmarked pages so regardless of your eye sight you can connect more immediately to the brand.

That being said the favicon could be updated and be more readable but I’d be hard pressed to find something without a g in it and being the same typeface as the mark’s g. Oh by the way the G that your contributor made for the 4 color Capital G looks completely like a beachball when compressed to 16×16.

I Think some of the favicon work that was provided was interesting but fell short of having a point, in design theirs no point to create if you cannot communicate. Icons take time to read and if they do not instantly connect the user with a piece of communication it ultimately fails. And I think some would argue communication is tied hand in hand with creating any good piece of art unless the intention is to be vague altogether.

Sincerely,
Joseph Maguire

Google’s new favicon does look good. So does Smashing Magazine’s. Eden has also done a great job. I need to start work on mine, thanks for the reminder.

Perfect!Thanks Smashing Magazine.