A cute little emoji as favicon trick ==================================== By George Mandis https://george.mand.is/2023/09/a-cute-little-emoji-as-favicon-trick Wednesday, September 20th 2023 I recently discovered [Bear Blog](https://bearblog.dev/) via one of the million newsletters I subscribed to. I'm a big fan of hyper-minimal products that do one thing thoughtfully and efficiently. Kudos to them! I've claimed my own little Bear Blog here, though I'm not quite sure what to do with it: - [https://georgemandis.bearblog.dev/](https://georgemandis.bearblog.dev/) I'm not quite sure what to do with it, but there it is. I also like that they have this "discover" page that seemed to be an aggregation of all the people hosting their own blogs and content on the service: - [https://bearblog.dev/discover/](https://bearblog.dev/discover/) But what I _really_ like is this cute, clever little trick to implement an emoji as your favicon! This doesn't work on Safari (or anything iOS by extension I imagine), but it does seem to work [everywhere else](https://caniuse.com/link-icon-svg) on desktop. So, hat-tip to Bear Blog for this fun little trick: ```html ``` This actually opens the door to more informative favicons. You could... - Indicate states of readiness (🔴🌕🟢) - That something is trying to chat with you (🗣️💬) - That something failed or succeeded (🚫✅) Very fun!