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Most of us never bother about small icons that can be seen next to the browsers address bar, The favicons. You agree or not favicons play a big role in the life of a website, from the first impression of a viewer itself. Since visual elements are easier to remember, a designer can use favicons to grab the visitors attention to  the web site. Usually most of the designers are not really making use of them. Favicons can make a connection with the visitors and lets them to remember and identify your web site from a huge list ! For instance.. when they look at their bookmarks they can identify your site easy even without going through whole title and description.

In this post we are presenting you some well designed favicons and some major trends in favicon designing.. Favicon design seems to be a simple task.. You know all things are not just like how we thinks

Typography Based

http://blogger.com

http://google.com

http://novell.com

http://twitter.com

http://www.revolutiontheme.com

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

Shape Specific

http://www.colorwarepc.com

http://www.evozon.com

http://wakoopa.com

http://www.apexdc.net

http://www.getmiro.com

http://www.freecommander.com

Now you almost got the idea how valuable favicons are.. Now get your designer and ask him for a unique fresh looking favicon. There will be some more posts about favicons in this blog stay tuned.

Bonus Capsule

http://deltatangobravo.com/archives/2004/march/favourite

A favicon collection by Daniel Burka

This is the part I of the series “Revolution by Tiny Graphics”