Tips for Homepage Icons

The Issue: A Website Icon Looks Ugly

The Solution: Replace or Edit Your Icon's Background

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Icon background mismatch: When websites change their logos, the icons will update automatically. So, if an icon has a background that doesn't look good with the logo, it may be because the logo changed. The best solution is to just change the background.

Right-Click a website, choose change color, then select a more appropriate background.

Using a eyedropper browser extension, Copy/Paste the ACTUAL color, typically a HEX code (i.e. #F8FBF8) as your background color.

Perfect Icons! Here are some eyedropper browser extensions to help match the background color with the logo:

NOTE: Only custom websites have this custom background color functionality


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