Favourite Favicons: Ten

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Here's yet another installment of favicons to add to the ever-growing original collection. Again, there are some really fine examples of design in an incredibly constrained space. I especially like the US Airways icon which is an elegantly simple scaled-down version of their already fine emblem. I've always thought their logo was beautiful and the fact that it scales from the tail of a commercial aircraft to a 16x16 icon is a reflection of its quality. Lots of other great examples in here too...


Like every other installment, your contributions are welcome. Just leave a comment if you've seen a favicon you think is worthy. Thanks to everyone who has contributed suggestions already. A number are queued up to be included in the next addition, whenever that might happen.

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Oliver -

http://mtsix.com/

Haha those a great! I especially the fourth last one on the third line.

Matt Robin -

http://preople.com/mattrobin

"I've always thought their logo was beautiful and the fact that it scales from the tail of a commercial aircraft to a 16x16 icon is a reflection of its quality."

I've made the new logo for my website based on the 'concept' of a commercial aircraft tail (note: not an actual tail though!) - and in the colour yellow. And I decided on this recently without having seen your blog article above or ever visiting the US Airways site....spooky eh? An explaination for my site logo will appear on the site soon (and yes, I haven't posted a link to the site at the moment, because it is actually undergoing a re-design!) Nice blog - it was cool to look at a collection of other favicons and see how varied they really are!

Matt

solidox -

I like this one : 10megatons.com

Ella -

http://www.myspace.com/ellac

I like the first one - Apple Insider.

Good job for collecting so many cute favicons!)

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