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Emoji as a Favicon Using SVG (2022)


With just a simple one-liner of code you can use any emoji as a favicon of your website. 😃

Lea Verou had a dang genius idea to use an emoji as a favicon. The idea only recently possible as browsers have started supporting SVG for favicons. Chuck an emoji inside an SVG<text> element and use that as the favicon.

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