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 is recognized immediately, favicons have to is visually appealing and fit to the design or logo of a given page. In fact, if your use is favicons for your sites, the users can easily find your URLs in their bookmarks-in this way your create so Me kind of a visual connection between your web-site and your sites ' visitors.

Unfortunately, many designers are not able to use them very well (favicons). Favicons, pocket graphics, suitable for a more detailed web site, can be displayed in the browser's address bar, adjacent to the bookmark list of the site's name, also close to the file dialog interface page title. Direct recognition, favicons should be pleasing to the eye, and suitable for the design or identification of the page. In fact, if you use favicons on a website, users can easily find your url--in their bookmarks. In this way, you create a visual connection between your site and the visitors to your site.

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However, the design of favicons can is tricky-it isn ' t, easy to create a beautiful 16x16px. Still, some designers manage to achieve tremendous. Logotypes with clear geometric structures are 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 can inspire yourself from. Can click on Favicons-they leads to a page, which uses the image as a page icon.

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

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 (alphabetic 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 (Cosmetic)

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/

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