Questions tagged [favicon]
For questions about the icons for Stack Exchange sites that are displayed in location bars, tabs, and bookmarks.
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An idea to help graduated sites without design/icon
Looking at stackexchange.com/sites, there are a lot of communities without any icons. It is a bit of a sad sight as quite a bit of the sites already graduated. Like pets.se. I don't think the problem ...
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Give Chat a distinct favicon
It would be nice if Chat tabs were visually distinct from Q&A site tabs, the way that meta sites typically have a greyed-out version of the favicon to differentiate them. It could be making it e....
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Icons rendering issue with browser zoom
I happened upon this post from a long while ago, and thought, "That still happens for me." I went to the achievements window and went to 90% zoom, and this happened. I am using up-to-date ...
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Site icons all cut off/incorrectly cropped in Hot Network Questions list
As you can see from the image below, the site icons in the Hot Network Questions list are all cut off at the top, with some extra content at the bottom. This issue appears to be occurring specifically ...
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Switched favicons for certain sites in inbox, achievements, and community tabs
When I click on my inbox or on the achievements button, it appears that the icon for Meta.SE has been switched with the one for Stack Apps; it's basically displaying the Stack Apps favicon even for ...
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5 votes
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Hot Network Questions icons do not match the sites to which they link
A few examples: (Stack Overflow in Russian icon, Role-playing Games (RPG) Stack Exchange site. Link) (Information Security Icon, Science Fiction & Fantasy. Link) (Software Engineering icon, ...
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10 votes
2 answers
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What is the meaning of Winter Summer Bash favicon?
As can be seen here, this is the favicon of Winter Summer Bash site: What is the meaning behind choosing those colors, in that order? (I don't remember when SE started using this icon.)
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70 votes
1 answer
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Favicon sprites are offset in site list dropdown, not as a result of a new site being created
I opened up the site today and am seeing site favicons offset in a weird way: Is this just me? Or did something happen with the way the sprites are rendered? The Featured sidebar is where I noticed ...
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15 votes
1 answer
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Do some beta meta sites have solid-black favicons? Is this a bug?
Following some links and opening a bunch of meta posts from different per-site metas at the same time, I noticed an odd discrepancy in the icons: The Economics meta icon seems to be solid black, ...
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13 votes
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Stack Exchange sites should set an HTTP cache expiry on their favicon.ico logos
Occasionally I'd receive mysterious HTTP/1.1 429 Too many requests responses from Stack Exchange, despite having made relatively few requests. I've now discovered the cause. I have a web page ...
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13 votes
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Incorrect favicons
The favicons in the HNQ list (and also in "Your Communities") are strangely incorrect, as if they were vertically displaced: It's happening to me in all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, ...
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9 votes
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Wrong HNQ icon for Japanese
Cross site duplicate (as answer to the dark theme thread). I was quite surprised to see a meta.3dprinting.SE question in my HNQ feed and even more so when it turned out to be a Japanese question! The ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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What Unicode symbols are possible as a temporary site favicon?
Many sites change their temporary site icons to something more interesting, e.g. Chess.SE uses a rook. From Chinese.SE: ... if you have a unicode symbol, we could use that instead of the "Cn". For ...
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5 votes
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Capitalization inconsistencies between the favicon.ico and icon-16.png pictures for several non-designed sites
Well this is very unimportant, but captured my attention. Linguistics.SE favorite icon in browser capitalises only the L, but in Tabs Outliner (just installed) capitalises all the three letters. I ...
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4 votes
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Wrong favicon on error page when trying to convert a deleted answer into a comment
If you are trying to convert a deleted answer into a comment, you will be redirected to error page. As you can see, this page shows SOen favicon, but should use SOru icon.
