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chalarangelo boutique-home-office-3 Ensure your HTML documents have a proper favicon by including these lines in your `<head>` element. 2023-01-24T05:00:00-04:00

Over the years, I've seen many different and often conflicting guidelines about favicons and which tags are essential. Nowadays, I think you can get away with a very minimal set of meta tags and tailor them to your needs as you go. Here's my recommendation for the bare minimum you should include in your <head> element:

<head>
  <link rel="icon" sizes="192x192" href="favicon.png">
  <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="favicon.png">
  <link rel="mask-icon" href="favicon.svg" color="#000000">
</head>

By creating a single 192x192 PNG asset, you can cover almost all modern devices and browsers, without too much hassle. If you want to go the extra mile, you can include a few more quite easily. Simply downscale the image and include more rel="icon" meta tags with different sizes attributes.