Faviconique+

Turn a single emoji into a cross‑browser favicon – no image export, no build steps.

Faviconique+ is a Micro.blog plug‑in that takes one emoji and serves it as PNG favicons via EmojiCDN. It also provides an Apple touch icon and a configurable browser UI color. Works in Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge — no local image generation needed.

Credits: Inspired by the original Faviconique by Sven Dahlstrand. This plug‑in focuses on emoji-only favicons via a CDN and adds a few Micro.blog‑specific quality‑of‑life options.

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Features

• 🦄 Emoji → favicon (PNG via CDN)
  • Styles: Apple, Twitter (Twemoji), Facebook, Google
• 📐 Multiple sizes out of the box
  • 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 96×96, 192×192, 512×512
  • Plus Apple touch icon 180×180
• 🚀 Fast loading
  • preconnect + dns-prefetch to EmojiCDN
  • Cache‑buster on URLs to avoid stale favicons
• 🏷️ Configurable names for home‑screen/app surfaces
  • Sets apple-mobile-web-app-title and application-name
• 🎨 Theme color for browser UI (Android/desktop browsers, Windows tiles)
  • Sets theme-color and msapplication-TileColor

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Configure

Fields in Plugins → Faviconique+ → Settings:

• Emoji (only one) – e.g. 🌱 (required)
• Emoji style – apple, twitter, facebook, or google (required)
• Home screen title (optional) – overrides the saved shortcut/app name
• Theme color for browser UI – used for theme-color and Windows tiles

Tip: Placeholders in the UI are not saved values. Enter your own values and click Update Settings.

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How it works

• The plug‑in builds favicon URLs like:

  https://emojicdn.elk.sh/<emoji>?style=<style>&size=<N>&v=<timestamp>
  

• Browsers receive raster PNGs for each declared size. Safari gets a standard Apple touch icon (180×180).
• The CDN host is fixed to emojicdn.elk.sh for simplicity and reliability.

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👤 Author

René Fischer – https://fischr.org