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Life & fun · October 20, 2020

Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds

Design a letter-based favicon like most big tech companies, or be playful and create an emoji-based favicon. Modern browsers supports SVG favicon. Be creative.

Design Stripe or Hacker News-like favicons in seconds launched on October 20, 2020 with 199 votes, #141 of 4,018 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

Visit formito.com ↗Alternativestop 4% of October 2020

In plain words

Formito is a tool for quickly generating favicons inspired by the minimalist designs of Stripe and Hacker News. Users can create distinctive small icons in seconds rather than spending time on detailed design work. The tool is useful for developers and designers building websites who need professional-looking favicons without extensive effort. It appeals to anyone launching a project who wants a polished visual identity quickly.

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From the sources

Copy the following code and put it inside the <head> tag of your website. Or, download the SVG file, add the following code to <head> tag of your website, and replace href attribute with URL to your SVGfrom formito.com

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