Favicon Episode 7

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:

Favicon Episode 7

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.

Black and Grey

	NK Interactive
	Dennis Kleine
	Design by Ninjas
	Vivabit
	Our Type
	The Serif
	Fakeblog
	Shaun Inman
	Singularity Conference
	urbanchip
	Cool Hunting
	Mutum Sigillum
	Hongkiat
	Boxes and Arrows
	DM2interactive
	funkyremixes

Blue and Green

	Rhaya
	Fused Network
	urbanphes
	eliectricurrent
	arhibet
	Eden
	Quadrifolia
	Twhirl
	laterloop
	Jeux de Maux
	emtwo
	visible.net
	SAS
	Infinity Art
	Teddy Hwang
	Get a Freelancer

Drawn

	wagner graphics
	Sail Select
	Arty Crooks
	SmugMug

Orange & Red

	anaconsol
	Headscape
	nickstedt web
	HEBAtec
	Panoye
	Designer’s Toolbox
	Keinu
	suggest.name
	Ebugogo
	Fruit
	iPhone Lemurs
	Capture All
	Pro Webdesign
	Sprout
	Overheard in New York
	Toomix
	Mixx
	Faveup
	Computerlove
	ChaCha
	Pop Art Blog
	colorcubic
	Barrierekompass