Sven Lennartz

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Sven Lennartz Sven is the co-founder and former CEO of Smashing Magazine. He’s now writing at his Conterest Blog, where he focuses on blogs, content strategy and publishing — all in German.

Favicons, Episode 8

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 ...

Every now and again we showcase beautiful favicons, tiny pieces of art you’ll find in your browser’s address bar or when searching through your bookmarks. Favicons are important because they provide visual indicators to visitors and help them easily associate content with a bookmark in their browser. Besides that, favicons are just nice to look at, and there are way too many websites that don’t make use of them. We want to change that, which is why we are presenting the 8th episode of our favicons series – for a change, a small article with very small images and a quick loading time.

We’ve written enough about favicons in the past. If you’d like to find out more about them, feel free to look at our previous posts:

Notice that these favicons were chosen not simply for their beauty; it’s been important to us that the favicon fits perfectly with the overall website design. Pay close attention to the small details of the design. All favicons are linked, of course, to the websites where they are used (if they still exist) – click on them to get more insight into how favicon design relates to overall layout design. The favicons are listed in no particular order.
Favicon Notifu
Favicon Celsius Compile
Favicon Derek Allard
Favicon Typo3 Switch
Favicon Tajloro
Favicon Nicole Bauer
Favicon Computersight
Favicon Leisure and Cultural Services Department, Hong Kong
Favicon Sodevious
Favicon Inspired Buddy
Favicon Digital Camera Resource Page
Favicon Accessites
Favicon Creative News
Favicon Bed and Breakfast Brescia
Favicon Web Urbanist
Favicon LoupDeLou
Favicon Vida Comunicação
Favicon Clay Ant
Favicon Patrick Monkel’s Karma
Favicon Designspotter
Favicon Train 1 on 1
Favicon Turism Point Romania
Favicon Heartprints
Favicon The Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans
Favicon Burrow Physiotherapy Pontefract
Favicon Dean J. Robinson
Favicon Salt Solutions
Favicon Lyte Byte
Favicon Foxycart
Favicon Notified
Favicon Evoluted
Favicon Lifesize
Favicon Iconified
Favicon Kidsmodern
Favicon Knoxville Tourism
Favicon Etnies
Favicon Max Voltar
Favicon we:presenter
Favicon Scrumy
Favicon Stefano Verna. (Yes, a simple idea, but very effective in a bookmark list.)
Favicon Web Magazine
Favicon My Bank Tracker
Favicon Get a Freelancer. (Reminds me of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.)
Favicon Scinexx
Favicon Diplod
Favicon Strands
Favicon Custom Canvas
Favicon I like to Design. (Last but not least, a very animated one.)


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