Web Design for Developers

Favicons, or “Favorite icons” are icons associated with your site. The icon appears next to the address bar on most browsers, and is often used as the icn for the bookmark or tab associated with the site.

There are many different ways to create favicons. In the book, you saw how you can use Illustrator to resize your company’s logo. You could also use different tools like ImageMagick to create scaled-down versions of existing images. Sometimes, though, it’s nice to draw an icon by hand.

http://www.favicon.cc/ has a free online icon utility. Simply draw your icon in their grid and click to download. It supports transparency and works extremely well.

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Communication, Icons by Brian Hogan