Favicons—tiny icons in tabs, address bars, and bookmarks—are vital to brand identity, recognition, and usability. This guide covers designing simple, unique, scalable icons; required formats (ICO, PNG, SVG) and sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48); implementation via favicon.ico, link and meta tags; plus a coffee shop workflow example and design-reading recommendations.
A favicon is a small graphic representing your website in browser tabs, bookmarks, and search engine results pages. Traditional `.ico` files are being replaced by modern SVGs with `theme-color`, which offer more flexibility and scalability. Add an SVG favicon using `<link rel="icon" type="image/svg+xml" href="/favicon.svg">` and customize color scheme with `<meta name="theme-color" content="#hexcode">`.
Adding a modern favicon in 2025 involves using SVG format for scalability and flexibility, including multiple sizes (e.g., 16x16, 32x32, 64x64), and specifying the theme color with `theme-color`. Create your design using a vector editor, export different sizes from the same SVG file, add meta tags to your HTML, test on various devices and browsers.
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