MpP Favicon Gallery

Back in the saddle again

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:00:00 MDT

Wow, I can’t believe that I haven’t updated the site since February! Amazing how life goes in cycles. These icons were just picked from the pile that I have waiting to put on the site. Most of these are pretty good ones. Of this group, I think 9rules and Cold Tree Press float to the top. I’m going to try to put out some updates at least once a week…we’ll see how well that holds up!

I'm Back!

Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:30:00 MDT

After a long holiday break, hectic times at work and just general craziness getting in the way…I’m back! Here’s a series of icons to close out the fifth gallery. Not many have comments at this point; someday I’ll get back to the commenting mode. To get back in the spirit of things, I just started picking some icons that I really liked rather than working through my backlog sequentially. What do you think?

Airplane Updates

Thu, 24 Oct 2004 23:15:00 MDT

I’ve been on an airplane quite a bit over the last few days and spent some of my time adding more icons to the gallery. Gallery 5 is almost full! When I add comments, I like to look at the original page to see how it all fits together. Unfortunately, from the air I didn't have web access so now I have to go back and add comments to a number of these new entries.

A little remiss...

Thu, 24 Oct 2004 23:15:00 MDT

I’ve been a little remiss in posting RSS updates for changes to the gallery… If anyone is actually listening here, I apologize! Work has been pretty insane lately and I haven’t been able to keep up. Anyway, here are the icons that have been added since the last post.

Icon Surfing

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:30:00 MDT

Found this great favicon gallery today. The site has a huge collection of icons and randomly generates 250 at a time, refreshing every 30 seconds. The site uses a spider to gather all of the icons and you can submit your own. The icons are all presented as 32px, however, and a lot of them look funny as they get stretched to the expanded size. Now listed as one of the “Other Galleries”

Today's Icons

Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:25:00 MDT

Some more icons that have been emailed to me for tonight’s updates. Thanks to everyone that has sent something to me!

A few updates

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 00:50:00 MDT

More updates to the galleries, most of them with comments this time. Many of these have been submitted by the site owners…thanks for letting me know! Blue Plaid Shirt and ZooiBaai are 2 favorites from this bunch. ZooBaai is a redesigned favicon to go with the new site redesign; this icon is on page 3 paired with its predecessor. I'm almost caught up with all of the submissions, thanks for your patience!

Gallery 5 Updates

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 23:30:00 MDT

Several updates to the fifth gallery tonight. All of these were submitted by email and I’m finally catching up to all of the requests. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

rasterweb.net/raster

Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:00:00 MDT

The site uses an interesting italics-like, pixel font for the name in the masthead, and the first letter is used for the favicon. On it’s own, I wouldn’t know that it’s the letter “R” because of the slanted effect, but that doesn”t really matter. It translates well as a favicon because of the pixel–based design. (format: ICO, sizes: 16; colors: 16)

washingtonpost.com

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:36:00 MDT

I’m not really sure where this “w” comes from; it’s not really used on the site anywhere as a logo. Regardless, I think this is a little too blurry and nodescript. A simple grey circle would have worked better than the 3D sphere effect they tried to create. (sizes: 16; colors: 16)

freelance.com

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:35:00 MDT

These folks have a pretty interesting logo, but I think most of it gets lost as it gets reduced to the favicon. The lines are just so thin it’s hard to distinguish anything; the contrasting orange color almost disappears completely. (sizes: 16; colors: 16)

ficml.org

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:34:00 MDT

For a site that provides XML tools, the image works out well. The colors match the overall color scheme and have a nice contrast. I like the dotted border around the icon as well; adds a nice subtle edge. (sizes: 16; colors: 256)

ccad.edu

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:33:00 MDT

A portion of the school’s “C” logo makes for an interesting favicon. The site has a nice, rich red color as the background, too bad it wasn’t used for the icon color. Definitely a favicon that stands out. (sizes: 16; colors: 256)

itcfonts.com

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:32:00 MDT

I have no idea where this favicon comes from, nothing on the site looks similar, but I like it a lot! The deeper shades of the colors are nice and the quadrant layout adds some visual interest. I’m not sure where the 20px icon size comes from, but I’m glad the 32px version was included. They did a nice job of utilizing the larger size well. (sizes: 16, 20, 32; colors: 256)

visualthesaurus.com

Sat, 09 Oct 2004 11:31:00 MDT

This favicon shows a great method of making something look 3D without using drop shadows, which don&rsuqo;t usually work in a small favicon. The colored balls look as though they are floating above the surface with the light grey border. Having the colors interrupt the grey line give it a great 3D look. (sizes: 16; colors: 256)