Tagged “favicon”
How to Favicon in 2021 (on CSS-Tricks)
Some excellent favicon tips from Chris Coyier, referencing Andrey Sitnik’s recent article of the same name.
I always appreciate someone looking into and re-evaluating the best practices of something that literally every website needs and has a complex set of requirements.
Chris is using:
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico"><!-- 32x32 -->
<link rel="icon" href="/icon.svg" type="image/svg+xml">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"><!-- 180x180 -->
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.webmanifest">And in manifest.webmanifest:
{
"icons": [
{ "src": "/192.png", "type": "image/png", "sizes": "192x192" },
{ "src": "/512.png", "type": "image/png", "sizes": "512x512" }
]
}(via @mxbck)
Here’s a neat trick. You can use an emoji as a favicon! I’ve written previously about how to do favicons properly, but for a short-lived hack project you tend to just need something quick and dirty. Chris Coyier has also shared a nice lil’ Codepen website showing the technique in action.
Now that all modern browsers support SVG favicons, here's how to turn any emoji into a favicon.svg:
— Lea Verou (@LeaVerou) March 22, 2020
<svg xmlns="https://t.co/TJalgdayix" viewBox="0 0 100 100">
<text y=".9em" font-size="90">💩</text>
</svg>
Useful for quick apps when you can't be bothered to design a favicon! pic.twitter.com/S2F8IQXaZU
Real Favicon Generator
Knowing how best to serve, size and format favicons and other icons for the many different device types and operating systems can be a minefield. My current best practice approach is to create a 260px × 260px (or larger) source icon then upload it to Real Favicon Generator.
This is the tool recommended by CSS-Tricks and it takes care of most of the pain by not only generating all the formats and sizes you need but also providing some code to put in your <head> and manifest.webmanifest file.
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