It's funny, when Mathowie first announced "Ask MetaFilter" my first thought was "how's he going to make a Favicon of that name that fits with the oh-so-neat MF and MT for MetaFilter and MetaTalk." Still no solution to that little problem, I'm afraid :(

Funny how there are no photo realistic favicons in either your or Makiko's lists.

Oops meant to suggest a couple: www.lockergnome.com, www.mezzoblue.com, http://www.designbyfire.com/..

cripes there's loads!!

I enjoy the kidrobot favicon (http://www.kidrobot.com) something about the robots man...gets me every time. Plus they have some impressive action figures over there which are worth a look.

A few other suggestions:
<a href="http://www.novell.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/novell.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/redhat.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.news.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/news.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.cubancouncil.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/cubancouncil.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.creativecommons.org/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/creativecommons.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.gnome.org/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/gnome.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.gimp.org/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/gimp.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>

<p style="clear: both;">Putting shame aside - a few of my own design:</p>

<a href="http://www.actsofvolition.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/aov.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.ceoblues.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/ceoblues.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://www.genx40.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.actsofvolition.com/images/favicons/genx40.png" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a>

<p style="clear: both;">Good post.</p>

I'm proud of my favicon, mainly because I have zero drawing talent.

I really like favicons that appear in my bookmarks as a quick visual indicator of what's what. I'm wondering why sometimes they appear and sometimes they don't with no rhyme or reason. Does anybody know?

Yeah, it does seem to be voodoo. There are a slew of bugs listed in the Mozilla/Firefox bug database - this bug listing covers them.

Obviously breaking the favicon voodoo curse is a job for the President of the Internet. Perhaps you can add this to the docket for his next cabinet meeting.

It's funny, my favorite icon has been the same for 3 years, even though my website has changed designs at least 6 times.

Lots of good picks there, Daniel.

I had no idea there were so many CC sites. My favicon is relatively unimaginative but no worse than Creative Commons or Cuban Council's, I suppose...

So yes, how do you capture favicons?

Another one I just came across that struck me as funny.
<a href="http://www.fuckedcompany.com/" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.fuckedcompany.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="" title="Fucked Company" /></a><br clear="all">

I vote for my favicon!:

jasonsantamaria.com

:D

awesome post!

i'm terribly amused that http://www.ipct.be/ stole their favicon from http://www.sodaplay.com/ [as far as i know- the latter has been around for aaaaages and was actually one of the first sites i saw that used a favicon, which is why i remembered it.]

sweet collection@! good stuff

I ended up here by digging through the referrer strings in my web server logs; and was pretty surprised to see my icon is one of your favs. I like the idea - keep building. If anyone needs help adding a favicon to their site here is a good link that's been sitting in my bookmarks: http://www.winterdrache.de/freeware/png2ico/favicon.html

Wow, love the way you've styled this form! BTw the link to hicksdesign points to the wrong url - go see for yourself. My own favicon is shamefully dire. I'm working on it for the next redesign. Good entry.

What about Ryan Wickstrand's favicon at Goatee Style? Can't go wrong with goats.

And Jenn Rodriguez' icon at qrow.com. Simplicity is awesome.

OrneryBoy (a sw33t webcomic) has a cool icon too.

Another webcomic, Real Life has a nice blue pill favicon thing going on.

And finally, everyone's favourite Big White Guy, Randall van der Woning.

My personal favourites include

AD<br/>
Zeldman<br/>
gigaom (my number 1 icon)<br/>
Smudo<br/>
and Charlotte's Web.

I like your plane as well.

www.feedroom.com/favicon.ico

Here's mine: Flummel Block

Excellent topic and great resource for design ideas!

I nominate the favicon at http://cssbeauty.com

I found another great favicon, from the guys at Silver Orange.

Our school (The London School of Economics) has a great one: http://www.lse.ac.uk

My little birdie and I are flattered to be included! Thank you.

Well... of course I like my favicon. Not only is it just mine but it is also me.
My site is in the midst of an identity crisis though...

excellent! small images/branding 'do' start wonders!

Seeing all of those pretty much forced me to up date my tired old, lame favicon. Thanks a lot! ;)

No, really, great post!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/ - Seattle Times...very cool!

I like the one at Microsoft's Office website. Pretty neat.

my first try at it:
http://insignificantother.com/

Da bomb (love this one):

<a href="http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/" title="Trevor Van Meter" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/favicon.ico" width="16" height="16" alt="" /></a><br style="clear: both;" />

I've been inspired to update my favicon and site logo:
<a href="http://www.differentsky.com" title="differentSky" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.differentsky.com/blog/images/posts/logo.gif" alt="logo" /></a>

Come check out <a href="http://www.differentsky.com/" title="differentSky">my site</a> and lay a block on the <a href="http://www.differentsky.com/guestblock/" title="differentSky">gustblock</a>.

try the one at http://zerophase.net !

The good list of icons

I'm rather proud of my favorite icon, as it's my first try, but it matches the site rather well. check it out at Ballistic Zen

just wanted to add the favicon of www.heimkino.net but as i put it here, it was completely black.
any suggestions?

url is http://www.heimkino.net/favicon.ico
<img src="http://www.heimkino.net/favicon.ico">

Awesome list with many nice favicons. Good work!

Good list of fine icons :)

Mine is lame, too, but a great photo favicon is http://www.nicksfix.com/ - You can even sort of tell that it's Stevie Nicks. Others: http://www.airamericaradio.com
http://www.radiodelilah.com
http://www.quotationspage.com
http://www.uua.org/
http://www.usps.com
http://www.stockroom.com/
http://www.txlottery.org
http://www.memotome.com/
http://www.netspend.com/
http://www.johnkerry.com/
http://www.pulpcards.com/
http://www.freewaregamer.com/
http://www.twocows.com/
http://www.worldoffreegames.com/

ALSO! There are a couple of programs now for getting and keeping favicons from your favorite websites. The best one is FavIconizer.

Es increíble lo que se puede lograr con algo de imaginación, muy buenos íconos.

I also found a HUGE list of favicons, some good, some not so good.

http://favicons.basecomac.net/frame.html

It's in French, but just go through the categories on the left. If you need to visit each site in order to get the favicons (which are presented on the list as gifs), be aware that some of the links are bad, but that if you put in the address that is listed as the link, instead of trying to go to the links themselves, sometimes it works better. Like a billion favicons.

Once more with favicon: http://www.kraniopharyngeom.de

Displaying my own stuff:
http://www.zooibaai.nl » It's just my own, not the best though.
http://www.bleekselderij.nl » This one I like. I just captured some of the recognition marks of the site, and it works.

Fascinating topic. Time and again I'm amazed how even complex graphics transform smoothly to much smaller resolutions.
For our university website we ventured to cram the official seal into the favicon format (cf. the original http://rzv075.rz.tu-bs.de/images/tulogo2.gif)

A couple of favicons that I like (sorry if some of them are already posted!):

Mine: http://www.pixelpush.org
http://www.gotomedia.com/
http://www.bluesnews.com
http://resource.reh3.com/
http://www.graphicpush.com/
http://www.orderedlist.com/ <- html'ished icon
http://www.gamespy.com/
http://htmldog.com/

I have a new one: <img src="http://www.flummel.com/ee/favicon.ico">

www.netdiver.net has a new favicon

Awesome site! I think I will use these on my personal sites. Thanks.

my jack sparrow favicon i like it

http://www.c32.net/favicon.ico

i mean jack skellington ;D

Fantastic selection of favicons. Well done!

Wish Internet Explorer would do a better job of remembering the favicons. Mine never seem to be stored in favorites for more than a few minutes or hours.

Very cool site. How can you make your own favicon? Maybe a dumb question - but I would like to customize for my own website with maybe just "NP" ...

Thanks!

Would you mind to add my favicon too?
http://cloudless.net
(a photoblog in hong kong)

I would like to add mine to your list as well.

By the way, yours is very good.

I would like to add my studio's icon to your list. Cheers.

Nice post. Here are some more.

<a href="http://suggestedreading.com/" title="suggestedreading.com" class="favicon"><img src="http://suggestedreading.com/favicon.ico" alt="" /></a>

<a href="http://sedition.com/ddx/" title="devil's dictionary x" class="favicon"><img src="http://sedition.com/ddx/favicon.ico" alt="" /></a>

<a href="http://sage.sedition.com/" title="sage" class="favicon"><img src="http://sage.sedition.com/favicon2.ico" alt="" /></a>

<a href="http://sedition.com/" title="Sedition.com" class="favicon"><img src="http://sedition.com/img/sedition-favicon.gif" alt="" /></a>
<br style="clear: left;">

i have a better favicon on 230 now, it's more HARDCORE. well, not really, but it's definitely nicer.

http://pixelarmy.org/
http://mrsomeone.com/ (Have to putmy own site :p)

Great list cheers

I don't feel too badly recommending my the favicon on my site ( http://trevor.smith.name/ ), as it was designed by the excellent Tim Martin at http://design1st.org/tim/

Du you know http://iconsurf.com/ - an interesting project to compare favicons by checksumming them?

I like the little alien at http://www.codeproject.com

If you are searching for a great favicon site take a look at http://peerbot.com! Still in beta but worth a look.

nice collection, nice ...

Nice collection of Flavicons! [-.-]<br>
<a href="http://www.eshibui.com" target="blank"><img src= "http://www.eshibui.com/e-16x16.ico"></a>

The icon at http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/ is nice too. :-)

Shamelessly showing off my own stuff: www.zooibaai.nl/b/
<a href="http://www.zooibaai.nl/b/" title="Zooiblog" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.zooibaai.nl/b/wp-content/themes/bob/styles/bob/favicon.ico" alt="" /></a><br style="clear: left;" />

http://www.penmachine.com/

http://www.penmachine.com/penmachine.ico

I have little shame.

Hello,

look my site for big collection of favicons. :-)

Nice wee site. Here's yet another suggestion - it's my one seen on:

http://www.minimal8.co.uk

I like cameron molls mini "n-m" logo http://www.cameronmoll.com/ and my own little green "å" here http://dabitch.net/now/ - lets just say I'm a sucker for letters. ;)

Great post! Here's favicon of my website. It is an eye of chameleon from my logo ;o)

<a href="http://www.digileon.com/en/" title="digileon.com" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.digileon.com/favicon.ico" alt="" /></a><br style="clear:left;">

We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list. Regards;-)

We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list. Regards;-)

great favicons, nice jobs on the custom ones!

nice, page, and great idea !

I like little photo ones that that I see everytime I go into my favourites as they make me feel happy.

We would like to add our agency's favicon to your list.
All the best.

Hello,

Just suggesting our favicon for your list

ah, thought you might like my favicon? have a look and have a great day.

thanks,
-mathewh

Hey I thought maybe you'd like my favicon too. It resides at: http://www.madtv.me.uk/favicon.ico
Cheers
Mad

Howzabout this one from Modern Mirth?
<a href="http://www.modernmirth.com/" title="Modern Mirth" class="favicon"><img src="http://www.modernmirth.com/favicon.ico" alt="" /></a><br style="clear:left;">
Guaranteed to upset people who are afraid of clowns!

Hei Look my favicon
www.kabloc.com.br