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Comment by kakarot | Hacker News Reader

My bookmarks bar is a row of unlabeled favicons arranged by color. Beautiful and extremely efficient. I only need to store the color of an icon in my head, not the icon itself or the url. If this ever gets taken away from me I will become extremely cross.

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This is exactly what I do. I am floored to hear that people are considering moving away from favicons. It's a tremendous space saver.

The all-out war on bookmarks and the original ways we organized information back in the 90s on the web is getting to be absurd.

Not to mention the fact that, as others have said, scanning your tabs for images is much, much quicker than scanning text. Favicons also give your site character and create a lasting visual impression of your brand. They are as important as a logo. Seems like a major step backwards.

Since Safari doesn't show favicons in the bookmarks bar, I use emoji to get the same effect

I have a grotesque curiosity as to what that may look like, if you wouldn't mind sharing.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=emoji+bookmarks+safari&saf...:

I'd love to look at your bookbar bar, if you are comfortable sharing a screenshot. I'm trying to arrange my bookmark bar since quite a while and can use some pointers from your setup.

do you have an email I can send it to?

I don't use bookmark bars anymore, but when I did I remember noticing that most things I bookmarked were blue for some reason. Maybe that's the reason I stopped finding it useful.

It's a couple years old now, but there's a similar trend towards certain colors in the iOS universe too: http://hboon.com/ios-app-icon-colors-in-the-year-2015/

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