{"items": [{"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270077066402616", "anchor": "fb-270077066402616", "service": "fb", "text": "Yes, that's the problem. When I'm making a favicon, I always make it big first, and then shrink it down to 20x20 or whatever it is.", "timestamp": "1331306405"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270079349735721", "anchor": "fb-270079349735721", "service": "fb", "text": "@Alex: when I tried that it looked all blurry.  I think the right way is probably to make it big, shrink it, then tweak it, but I don't know how to do the last step well.", "timestamp": "1331306674"}, {"author": "Alex", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270080099735646", "anchor": "fb-270080099735646", "service": "fb", "text": "I think blurry might be your friend. Blurriness at such small size is hard to perceive, and it can actually look more normal to visitors than something that on close examination is crisp.", "timestamp": "1331306768"}, {"author": "opted out", "source_link": "#", "anchor": "unknown", "service": "unknown", "text": "this user has requested that their comments not be shown here", "timestamp": "1331307442"}, {"author": "Stefan", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/109680770231773746626", "anchor": "gp-1331307507154", "service": "gp", "text": "make it bigger and when you scale it down play a bit with the different scaling algorithms (photoshop offers a few, I think other software might as well)", "timestamp": 1331307507}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270090943067895", "anchor": "fb-270090943067895", "service": "fb", "text": "Yes, enlarge, blur, reduce.  Heavier weight will probably be helpful too.  The attributes of the blue are important too.  How wide, how dark.  Try making the darks darker - play with the gamma curve after you blur.", "timestamp": "1331308077"}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270093513067638", "anchor": "fb-270093513067638", "service": "fb", "text": "Not blue, blur.  Best to start with a sharp larger version, enlarging a small version will get pretty blocky.", "timestamp": "1331308443"}, {"author": "Danner", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/114987071963782993407", "anchor": "gp-1331309228490", "service": "gp", "text": "I make mine in inkscape, then render as the exact pixels I want. no need to muss things up scaling larger and smaller.", "timestamp": 1331309228}, {"author": "Miles", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270101529733503", "anchor": "fb-270101529733503", "service": "fb", "text": "Make it bigger and don't shrink it down -- RedLaser's favicon is kept at 105x105: http://tinyurl.com/89qscvw", "timestamp": "1331309436"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270113339732322", "anchor": "fb-270113339732322", "service": "fb", "text": "@Miles: their favicon doesn't show up for me in chrome, though it does in firefox.  It's also 100x larger than mine (19372 bytes vs 198) but that may not matter much.", "timestamp": "1331310849"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270114086398914", "anchor": "fb-270114086398914", "service": "fb", "text": "@Miles: hmm, redlaser's favicon is showing up in chrome now", "timestamp": "1331310909"}, {"author": "BDan", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/270074693069520?comment_id=270161706394152", "anchor": "fb-270161706394152", "service": "fb", "text": "Best way I've found is to create it pixel by pixel at 16x16, and manually do the anti-aliasing.  It requires some experimentation, but gives you much better control than scaling.", "timestamp": "1331316723"}]}