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Great tool.

I've been doing some tests with Emoji / SVG favicons.

There's a couple of problems. They don't show up on some old browsers and in google search results.

For old browsers there's a solution, which is to have a raster .ico version of the icon at the root of the domain: e.g. example.com/favicon.ico

But for the google issue, I'm not sure if that's the solution. Whatever google is using to render svg icons in their search results just doesn't like emojis. I haven't tested that yet.

also as others have pointed out there's this bit of code that can save you an http request:

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