Update 21.03.2012

Daniel has updated the favicon template with a 144×144px touch icon. This icon is needed for the high-resolution iPad Retina displays which are built into the latest version of the iPad. A version of this is also included in HTML5 Boilerplate by default. Please read this issue for more information and remember Mathias’ article, which he updated recently.

Thanks goes out to Daniel.

I’m using HTML5 Boilerplate (H5BP) for nearly all of my projects at the moment. Why? Mh, I think mostly because it provides best practice for so many things concerning front-end development. With H5BP I learned how to use favicons (or touch icons) in different variations for smartphones and stuff properly.

Friend and boss Daniel designed a nice PSD template to create the various icons you need. It has four different sizes and includes slices and meta-information for everything. You just need to include your favicon, “Save for Web” and you’re done.

He gives it away for free. So feel free to download and share. It would be pretty nice if you check out his Twitter-stream and follow him.

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Edit:
Please be aware that you also should add an apple-touch-icon.png. You could do this by copying apple-touch-icon-57x57-precomposed.png and rename this. Thanks Sven for the heads up.