We’ve seen a few similar projects over the years, like Mashpoe’s favicon recreation of the Chrome Dino game, and a favicon clone of the Defender arcade game. Most of them work in the same way ...

The favicons displayed in browser tabs were quite small, at 16x16 pixels, so his friend's project had the disadvantage that it was difficult to understand what was going on. So Royalty thought ...

Google has been testing more changes with website favicons. Here's another test where Google is using the same border color as the logo. Below are both tests—one with and one without the border." ...