Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons — tiny pieces of art you’ll usually find in your browser’s address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. Favicons are important as they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them to easily associate the content with a bookmark in their browser. Besides, favicons are just nice to look at and there are way too many sites which don’t make use of them. We like to change things. Which is why here is the 7th episode of the favicons series.
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:
The favicon of the month was designed by Google. To improve the scalability on new platforms like the iPhone and other mobile devices Google has replaced the old favicon with a new one first after 8.5 years. Not only that - Google has released a whole favicon family which you can observe in a number of Google applications. The primary Google’s favicon is displayed below:
However, some designers claim that Google’s new favicon is ugly and Denis Kortunov knows how to draw a good icon for Google. Here is an example of how it might look like:
…or like this:
…and this is how the favicon could look like:
Below you’ll find 69 further outstanding favicons. Let’s start with the dark ones. 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.
Arty Crooks
Ebugogo
Barrierekompass