20 Best Favicon Online Generators

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Favicons (favorite icons) are the small images that are associated with a website. It will be displayed on address bar, tabbed browsers and your bookmark list. Therefore, creating an outstanding favicon is particularly important for website branding. The basic guidelines for design a good favicon are “simple” and “unique”.

Here is the simple steps for beginners to set up favicons,
1. create a favicon (16 x16) for your sites;
2. upload favicon.ico to root directory;
3. copy and paste the code to header section;
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />
4. reload your sites and finish!

It is more complex if you want the favicons also work well at IE, for more information you might take a look the links at the bottom. And the generators below is selected from almost 50 favicon tools on the web. Simply drop me a message if you have any better suggestions.

Favicon Generators

Favicon.cc - a new web 2.0 feel favicon generator. You can draw by yourself or import images to generate favicons, and it also have a live preview function at the bottom. Recommended!

256pixels - raise a daily favicon design challenge via different topics. Great idea and worth to take a look.

Favicon2dots - unique Japanese favicon creator from any website URL.

Converticon - generate favicons from URL or your computers. Beware, sometimes it will have annoying pop-up ads.

FaviconTool - the coolest interface favicon generator.

Webscriptlab Favicon Generator - we mentioned this site before at 13 Online Generators For Web2.0 Design before.

Flavicon - they also offer custom favicons service.

Favicon Generator and Gallery - at this site you might choose the size of favicon before generation, and they also have a awesome favicons showcase.

FaviconGenerator.com - clean favicon generator.

Dagondesign Favicon Generator

Favicon.ru

Faviconsfor.us

More Here
13. http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/
14. http://www.antifavicon.com/
15. http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ - probably most popular one.
16. http://www.favicon.jp/ - Japanese site.
17. http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ - DynamicDrive tool.
18. http://www.faviconprime.com/
19. http://shaheeilyas.com/favicon/
20. http://www.faviconfactory.com/

Related Resources

• Inspire Yourself: 50 Remarkable Favicons - Smashing Magazine favicons showcase.
• Making a Good Favicon
• http://www.faviconz.info/
• How To: Animated Favicon - tips for create animated favicon manually.
• Favicons - How To Make Them Work For You
• http://www.favicon.com/ - favicons faq.
• Making a favicon - tutorial for making favicons that work at IE and FF.

* Updates

Quickfavicon
Freefavicons, (thanks: WebCentric)