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It's funny, when Mathowie first announced "Ask MetaFilter" my first thought was "how's he going to make a Favicon of that name that fits with the oh-so-neat MF and MT for MetaFilter and MetaTalk." Still no solution to that little problem, I'm afraid :(
Funny how there are no photo realistic favicons in either your or Makiko's lists.
Oops meant to suggest a couple: www.lockergnome.com, www.mezzoblue.com, http://www.designbyfire.com/..
cripes there's loads!!
I enjoy the kidrobot favicon (http://www.kidrobot.com) something about the robots man...gets me every time. Plus they have some impressive action figures over there which are worth a look.
I'm proud of my favicon, mainly because I have zero drawing talent.
I really like favicons that appear in my bookmarks as a quick visual indicator of what's what. I'm wondering why sometimes they appear and sometimes they don't with no rhyme or reason. Does anybody know?
Unless someone has a better answer Johnny, as far as I can tell the support for Favicons is entirely voodoo. Some browsers are better than others (Microsoft IE is particularly bad) but no browser I've used much supports them very well. It seems like a trivial thing not to just get right, but no one seems to do it well. Perhaps there is more complexity than meets the eye that some browser programmer can enlighten us with.
Obviously breaking the favicon voodoo curse is a job for the President of the Internet. Perhaps you can add this to the docket for his next cabinet meeting.
It's funny, my favorite icon has been the same for 3 years, even though my website has changed designs at least 6 times.
Lots of good picks there, Daniel.
I had no idea there were so many CC sites. My favicon is relatively unimaginative but no worse than Creative Commons or Cuban Council's, I suppose...
So yes, how do you capture favicons?
rur42: I got the Favicons above just by taking a screenshot and saving them as GIFs. However, if you look in the source of the document to get the path to the Favicon and paste it into your address bar you can save the actual ICO file to your computer.
Another one I just came across that struck me as funny.
awesome post!
i'm terribly amused that http://www.ipct.be/ stole their favicon from http://www.sodaplay.com/ [as far as i know- the latter has been around for aaaaages and was actually one of the first sites i saw that used a favicon, which is why i remembered it.]
Duly noted Jennifer. I hadn't recalled that was Sodaplay's favicon. The link has been updated now to the original source. Thanks.
sweet collection@! good stuff
I ended up here by digging through the referrer strings in my web server logs; and was pretty surprised to see my icon is one of your favs. I like the idea - keep building. If anyone needs help adding a favicon to their site here is a good link that's been sitting in my bookmarks: http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html
Wow, love the way you've styled this form! BTw the link to hicksdesign points to the wrong url - go see for yourself. My own favicon is shamefully dire. I'm working on it for the next redesign. Good entry.
What about Ryan Wickstrand's favicon at
Goatee Style? Can't go wrong with goats.
And Jenn Rodriguez' icon at qrow.com. Simplicity is awesome.
OrneryBoy (a sw33t webcomic) has a cool icon too.
Another webcomic, Real Life has a nice blue pill favicon thing going on.
And finally, everyone's favourite Big White Guy, Randall van der Woning.
www.feedroom.com/favicon.ico
Excellent topic and great resource for design ideas!
I nominate the favicon at http://cssbeauty.com
Our school (The London School of Economics) has a great one: http://www.lse.ac.uk
My little birdie and I are flattered to be included! Thank you.
Well... of course I like my favicon. Not only is it just mine but it is also me.
My site is in the midst of an identity crisis though...
excellent! small images/branding 'do' start wonders!
Seeing all of those pretty much forced me to up date my tired old, lame favicon. Thanks a lot! ;)
No, really, great post!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/ - Seattle Times...very cool!
I like the one at Microsoft's Office website. Pretty neat.
my first try at it:
http://insignificantother.com/
Da bomb (love this one):
I've been inspired to update my favicon and site logo:
Come check out my site and lay a block on the gustblock.
try the one at http://zerophase.net !
I'm rather proud of my favorite icon, as it's my first try, but it matches the site rather well. check it out at
Ballistic Zen
just wanted to add the favicon of
www.heimkino.net but as i put it here, it was completely black.
any suggestions?
url is http://www.heimkino.net/favicon.ico
Awesome list with many nice favicons. Good work!
Good list of fine icons :)
Mine is lame, too, but a great photo favicon is http://www.nicksfix.com/ - You can even sort of tell that it's Stevie Nicks. Others: http://www.airamericaradio.com
http://www.radiodelilah.com
http://www.quotationspage.com
http://www.uua.org/
http://www.usps.com
http://www.stockroom.com/
http://www.txlottery.org
http://www.memotome.com/
http://www.netspend.com/
http://www.johnkerry.com/
http://www.pulpcards.com/
http://www.freewaregamer.com/
http://www.twocows.com/
http://www.worldoffreegames.com/
ALSO! There are a couple of programs now for getting and keeping favicons from your favorite websites. The best one is FavIconizer.
Es increíble lo que se puede lograr con algo de imaginación, muy buenos íconos.
I also found a HUGE list of favicons, some good, some not so good.
http://favicons.basecomac.net/frame.html
It's in French, but just go through the categories on the left. If you need to visit each site in order to get the favicons (which are presented on the list as gifs), be aware that some of the links are bad, but that if you put in the address that is listed as the link, instead of trying to go to the links themselves, sometimes it works better. Like a billion favicons.
Once more with favicon: http://www.kraniopharyngeom.de
Displaying my own stuff:
http://www.zooibaai.nl » It's just my own, not the best though.
http://www.bleekselderij.nl » This one I like. I just captured some of the recognition marks of the site, and it works.
Fascinating topic. Time and again I'm amazed how even complex graphics transform smoothly to much smaller resolutions.
For our university website we ventured to cram the official seal into the favicon format (cf. the original http://rzv075.rz.tu-bs.de/images/tulogo2.gif)
A couple of favicons that I like (sorry if some of them are already posted!):
Mine: http://www.pixelpush.org
http://www.gotomedia.com/
http://www.bluesnews.com
http://resource.reh3.com/
http://www.graphicpush.com/
http://www.orderedlist.com/ <- html'ished icon
http://www.gamespy.com/
http://htmldog.com/
I have a new one:
www.netdiver.net has a new favicon
Awesome site! I think I will use these on my personal sites. Thanks.
my jack sparrow favicon i like it
http://www.c32.net/favicon.ico
i mean jack skellington ;D
Fantastic selection of favicons. Well done!
Wish Internet Explorer would do a better job of remembering the favicons. Mine never seem to be stored in favorites for more than a few minutes or hours.
Very cool site. How can you make your own favicon? Maybe a dumb question - but I would like to customize for my own website with maybe just "NP" ...
Thanks!
Would you mind to add my favicon too?
http://cloudless.net
(a photoblog in hong kong)
I would like to add mine to your list as well.
By the way, yours is very good.
I would like to add my studio's icon to your list. Cheers.
i have a better favicon on 230 now, it's more HARDCORE. well, not really, but it's definitely nicer.
http://pixelarmy.org/
http://mrsomeone.com/ (Have to putmy own site :p)
I don't feel too badly recommending my the favicon on my site ( http://trevor.smith.name/ ), as it was designed by the excellent Tim Martin at http://design1st.org/tim/
Du you know http://iconsurf.com/ - an interesting project to compare favicons by checksumming them?
I like the little alien at http://www.codeproject.com
If you are searching for a great favicon site take a look at http://peerbot.com! Still in beta but worth a look.
nice collection, nice ...
Nice collection of Flavicons! [-.-]
The icon at http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/ is nice too. :-)
Shamelessly showing off my own stuff: www.zooibaai.nl/b/
http://www.penmachine.com/
http://www.penmachine.com/penmachine.ico
I have little shame.
Hello,
look my site for big collection of favicons. :-)
Nice wee site. Here's yet another suggestion - it's my one seen on:
http://www.minimal8.co.uk
Great post! Here's favicon of my website. It is an eye of chameleon from my logo ;o)
We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list. Regards;-)
We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list. Regards;-)
great favicons, nice jobs on the custom ones!
nice, page, and great idea !
I like little photo ones that that I see everytime I go into my favourites as they make me feel happy.
We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list.
All the best.
Hello,
Just suggesting our favicon for your list
ah, thought you might like my favicon? have a look and have a great day.
thanks,
-mathewh
Hey I thought maybe you'd like my favicon too. It resides at: http://www.madtv.me.uk/favicon.ico
Cheers
Mad
Howzabout this one from Modern Mirth?
Guaranteed to upset people who are afraid of clowns!
Hei Look my favicon
www.kabloc.com.br
hi, perhaps you like my favicon as well ;)
nice one at http://www.mi3dot.org
