Comment by jorisw

15 hours ago

Fun Fact: You can use any inline SVG for a favicon and keep it right in the HTML document.

This also allows you to use an emoji directly as a favicon, like so:

  <link
    rel="icon"
    type="image/svg+xml"
    href="data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' viewBox='0 0 100 100'><text y='.9em' font-size='90'>(your emoji here)</text></svg>"
  />

(HN isn't showing the emoji)

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Timwi  6 hours ago

Just as a heads-up, if you do this and you want to use #rrggbb color codes or url(#id) links, you have to escape the # as %23, otherwise it gets parsed as a URL fragment and your SVG code is cut off there.