DigitalOcean provides cloud products for every stage of your journey. Get started with $200 in free credit! 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. Here’s the one-liner in use: <link rel="icon" href="data:image/svg+xml