20 Best Favicon Online Generators
* This post is regularly updated. *
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)
16 Responses to "20 Best Favicon Online Generators"
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August 8, 2007 06:17 pmBarry Welford
Thanks for the mention. This is a great topic. It’s so unfortunate that Microsoft does not support better what it invented.
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August 8, 2007 08:39 pmMark R-W
It seems worth mentioning that there are free .ICO plugins for photoshop that allow you to make your own. One such is here: http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
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August 8, 2007 08:56 pmWallace
hello, Mark,
it might nice for someone,
but i prefer the online generators.
it is fast and easy, no software installation completely. -
August 9, 2007 11:55 pmGavin
Great list, I too much prefer an online solution for this sort of thing - I actually coded my own recently if you think it’s worthy of your list!
http://gavinbenda.com.au/favicon -
August 10, 2007 12:29 amAnton
A nice and fast way to generate favicons online. Respect!
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August 10, 2007 12:55 amWallace
hello, thank you all your support.
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August 10, 2007 12:15 pmchocolate
Japanese version, lunch!
http://choco–late.com/archives/259 -
August 10, 2007 11:44 pmSpud Oregon
Wow, I never knew there were so many! Im off to check these out… thanks!
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August 11, 2007 02:57 amlester
Cool thanks!
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August 15, 2007 01:14 amDenis
Can I tranlate your post into Chinese?
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August 15, 2007 01:26 amWallace
Denis, you translate it to Chinese but must to link back me clearly. thanks.
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August 24, 2007 06:08 pmRamkarthik
You can find one Favicon creator here:
http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/Good post.
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August 29, 2007 01:21 pmJoe W
I also like this one. Quick Favicon
Worth a mention!
Joe
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August 29, 2007 02:10 pmWallace
HI, JOE,
IT SEEMS NO BAD,
ADD TO THE LIST! -
September 1, 2007 05:47 amWebCentric
Hey.. you forgot animated favicons.. these rock! and also text scrolling favicons.. http://www.freefavicons.info/
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November 6, 2007 06:19 amLGR
Another one that I like is http://www.freefavicon.com. They also offer some free favicons that people can download as well, great for when I am in a rush.
