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Support for SVG in favicons

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 80)

Intent stage

Evaluate readiness to ship

Summary

Allows using images in SVG format as favicons with <link rel="icon">.

Motivation

Using a scalable format for favicons allows having fewer such resources in total. For example, a website could have one (or more) hand-tuned icon(s) for small sizes and use a scalable icon as a catch-all.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#rel-icon
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal — Supported for rel="mask-icon" (with restrictions) but not rel="icon".
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=294179

Samples: http://dahlström.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html

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