Hey guys.
Marina here from Yes To Tech.
Welcome to Tech Tuesday where I remove the tech stress that comes along with running
a successful online business.
Today we’re going to talk about how to create a favicon with Canva.
A favicon is a small pixel icon that appears at the top of a web browser.
It serves as branding for your website and is a convenient way for visitors to find your
page when they have multiple tabs open.
Stay tuned until the end of this video to learn how to create a favicon with Canva to
brand your business, and to get a FREE cheat sheet with 9 brilliant tools like Canva that
you can use in your online business to save time and boost your productivity.
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Alright, so let’s get right into how to create a favicon with Canva.
Once you've logged in to your Canva account, which you can get started with today for free
by clicking on the link in the description box below, click on the blue 'create a design'
button on the top left, and then on 'custom dimensions'.
A favicon is usually 16 by 16 pixels, but since Canva only allows for designs that are
at least 40 pixels in size, let's create a bigger square that's 48 by 48 pixels.
Due to its small size, a favicon should be as simple as possible, and either be an abbreviated
version of your text or image logo.
Let's create both favicon versions.
What's great about Canva is that it has a number of templates that you can customize
that are exactly in the dimensions you chose.
For our text favicon, let's customize this 'MONO' template.
We can change the background color to fit in with our brand, in my case to fcb900, and
change the text so that it's the initials of our online business' name, in my case YTT,
and change the color of that as well, in my case to 2e333b.
If your logo has a custom font that isn't available in Canva, make sure to watch my
video on 'how to upload your own font to Canva' to do that.
For our image favicon, let's customize this 'airplane' template.
Let's ungroup the elements to delete the text, and increase the size of this airplane and
square icon.
If your online business has nothing to do with airplanes and traveling, you can also
replace this airplane to something else from Canva's icon library, or upload your own image
logo instead.
In my case, I'll change this square over here so that it's yellow, delete this airplane
icons and replace it with a gear icon, which is this one over here, and change a few of
the gear colors so that they fit in with my brand, such as the green to 09a59a, the yellow
to fcb900, and the red to 2e333b.
Once you've finished creating your favicon, and wish to download it to your computer,
click on the downward pointing arrow on the top right, select the file type, so either
JPG or PNG, and click on the blue 'download' button.
If you wish to leave the favicon icon background white, download it as a JPG, but in case your
design has a transparent background instead, and is just this circle with the gear icon
inside, for instance, be sure to save your file as a PNG and turn on the 'transparent
background' setting.
You can do so with a Canva Pro account, which you can try out for free for 30 days by clicking
on the link in the description box below.
Now you know how to create a favicon with Canva.
As promised, to get a FREE cheat sheet with 9 brilliant tools like Canva that you can
use in your online business to save time and boost your productivity, just click on the
link in the description box below.
So what does your favicon look like?
Leave your answer in the comment section below, and make sure to click on the link in the
description box below to get a free 30-day trial of Canva Pro.
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Thank you so much for watching, and I’ll see you in the next video!