Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji
Favioli – Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji launched on August 18, 2018 with 94 votes, #386 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Favioli is a Chrome extension that replaces blank tab icons with unique emoji assigned to each domain, helping users quickly identify tabs. The extension was inspired by randomized emoji favicons and addresses the practical challenge of distinguishing multiple open tabs. It generates consistent emoji per domain while keeping tabs visually distinct and recognizable at a glance.
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From the sources
🤯 Favioli is a productivity extension that makes it easier to recognize tabs within Chrome. Favioli was originally inspired by two things. The first thing that spurred the idea was Eli Grey’s personal site and its use of Emoji Favicon Toolkit to make randomized emoji favicons. The favicon of their site shows different emoji on-load that persist within a session. It’s pretty creative and fun! This was the creative inspiration for Favioli. There is an Emoji Favicon Toolkit usage example here on eligrey.com. The practical inspiration for Favioli came from my day job. We have a lot of internal tools and sites, and they tend to either not have favicons, or have the standard Sony…from eligrey.com
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