Inspire your inspiration: 50 excellent favicons_ experience Exchange

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Inspire yourself:50 Remarkable Favicons
Inspire your inspiration: 50 excellent favicons

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Actually it's a pity that many designers don ' t really make use of them. Favicons, mini graphics for a particular web-site, can is displayed in the browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in L Ists of bookmarks, and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface. To be recognized immediately, favicons has to be visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page. In fact, if you use the favicons for your sites, the users can easily find your URL in their bookmarks-in this Me kind of a visual connection between your web-site and your sites ' visitors.

Unfortunately, the fact that many designers are not very good at using them (favicons). Favicons, Pocket Graphics, for more detailed website, can be displayed in the browser's address bar, adjacent to the bookmark list of the site name, but also adjacent to the file Dialog interface page title. Directly get cognition, favicons should be pleasing to the eye, and to fit the design or logo of the page. In fact, if you use favicons on your website, users can easily find your url--in their bookmarks. In this way, you create some visual connections between your site and the visitors to your site.

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However, the design of favicons can be tricky-it isn ' t, which easy to create a beautiful 16x16px mini-icon. Still, some designers manage to achieve tremendous effects. Logotypes with clear geometric structures is easier to work with than typefaces or abstract images. The color selection corresponds to current WEB 2.0 trends. Let's take a look at the beautiful favicons you can inspire yourself from. You can click on Favicons-they leads to a page, which uses the image as a page icon.

However, the design of favicons can be difficult-it is not so easy to create a beautiful 16x16px mini-icon. However, the use of some designers has achieved great results. It is easier to use a clear geometric structure than an abstract font or image, and the color selection should conform to the current trend of Web 2.0. Let's take a look at 50 beautiful favicons that inspire your inspiration. You can click on the favicons--they point to the website using these images as the page icon.

Petal (Petals)

http://www.aurea.es/
http://www.fxis.net/
http://www.divshare.com/
http://www.tanyamerone.com/
http://www.akken.com/
http://www.kepu.net.cn/english/

Rounded Elements (round element)

http://www.fat-man-collective.com/
http://www.lisensa.com/
http://www.lorop-it.de/
Http://www.akamai.com
http://www.cogmap.com/
http://www.colorwarepc.com/
http://www.evozon.com/
http://www.diabetesgate.de/
http://www.adelaidemetro.com.au/

Letters and typography (letter and print style)

http://www.cubexagency.com/
http://www.lisensa.com/
http://www.somox.com/
http://www.piqniq.jp/
http://www.eight6.com/
http://reachgroupconsulting.com/
http://www.flexy.info/
http://www.kiva.org/

Ornaments (modified)

http://www.imthere.com/
http://www.elevenmedia.com/
http://www.roisure.com/
http://www.pixellogo.com/
http://www.thinkpinkstudio.com/
http://www.mattwebb.com.au/

Squares (square)

http://www.sumagency.com/
http://www.indesign.einsteiger-portal.de/
http://www.kirkpatrickbank.com/
http://deforum.ru/
http://www.imasters.com.br/
http://www.ouvaton.coop/
http://detlog.org/
http://www.ministrycamp.com/
http://www.getpaint.net/
http://microformats.org/
http://www.kath-thun.ch/
http://www.campus-and-more.de/
http://pro-buero.com/
Http://www.quada-office.de
http://www.modulio.net/

Further favicons (more favicons)

http://www.joomlart.com/
http://letterpop.com/
http://www.illustrationclass.com/
http://www.trendwatching.com/
http://www.edag.hu/
http://www.elektro.de/

Favicon Tools (Favicon tool)

Favicon Generator
Favicon Generator 2
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