Find the LinkedIn favicon

The short answer

LinkedIn's favicon is the small icon shown in browser tabs, bookmarks and history entries when you visit the site. It is generally recognised as LinkedIn's compact "in" mark: the lowercase letters "in" set inside a rounded square. You can find it in two places. The icon the website actually serves to browsers is declared in the page's code. Logo artwork intended for reuse comes from LinkedIn's own brand resources. These are often different files, and the difference matters if you need a vector.

No confirmed evidence was available for this article about LinkedIn's current favicon files. That means file formats, sizes, colour values, dates and whether a dark-mode version exists are not stated here. Check those details against LinkedIn's official brand materials before relying on them.

Favicon versus logo: which asset you are looking for

A favicon is a delivery format. A logo is a brand asset. Sites usually serve favicons as small raster files, such as ICO or PNG images at fixed pixel sizes. Some sites also offer an SVG icon. A raster favicon contains pixels, not editable paths, so it cannot be scaled up cleanly or recoloured precisely. If you need artwork for print, presentations or design work, the served favicon is usually the wrong source. Look for the vector logo in LinkedIn's official brand resources instead.

Source | What you typically get | Suitable for

Favicon served by the website | Small icon files referenced in the page head, often raster | Identifying the current browser icon; checking how it appears in tabs

Official LinkedIn brand resources | Approved logo artwork and usage guidance, possibly in vector formats | Permitted reuse such as linking to a LinkedIn profile, subject to the guidelines

Third-party logo sites and icon packs | Recreations or redistributed copies of uncertain origin | Not a reliable source for official artwork

How to locate the favicon the site serves

• Open LinkedIn in a desktop browser and view the page source, or open the browser's developer tools.
• In the document head, look for link elements whose rel attribute mentions "icon", such as icon, shortcut icon or apple-touch-icon.
• Note each referenced file's type and sizes attributes. Several entries can exist for different resolutions and devices.
• Check whether any icon entry has a media attribute with a prefers-color-scheme condition. That attribute is how a site can declare a separate dark-mode favicon.
• Open the referenced files directly to see what the browser receives.

This method shows what LinkedIn serves today. It does not show which artwork LinkedIn approves for reuse.

Telling official artwork from recreations

Many logo-download and icon sites host files labelled as the LinkedIn logo or favicon. Some are faithful redraws. Others have altered proportions, letterforms, corner radius or colour, or they reflect an older version of the mark. Unless a file comes directly from LinkedIn's brand resources, treat it as a recreation of unknown accuracy, however professional it looks.

A file extension does not tell you what is inside. A file ending in .svg, .eps, .ai or .pdf may contain clean vector paths. It may also contain an embedded raster image wrapped in a vector container. To check, open the file in a vector editor. Select the artwork and see whether it is made of editable paths and shapes, or whether it is a single placed image that pixelates when you zoom in.

Variants and dark mode

Brands often publish the compact mark in more than one colour treatment, for example a primary colour version and single-colour versions for light or dark backgrounds. Whether LinkedIn publishes specific variants, and which ones, needs to be confirmed in its current brand guidelines. No evidence supplied here establishes that LinkedIn serves a dedicated dark-mode favicon. The page-head check described above is the direct way to find out.

There is also a general design consideration, and it is a judgment rather than a documented LinkedIn behaviour. An icon built as a solid filled tile with a contrasting symbol inside tends to stay legible on both light and dark browser tab bars. That is because the tile supplies its own background. Icons that rely on a transparent background can lose contrast in dark mode, which is why some sites declare a separate dark-scheme favicon.

Downloading is not the same as permission to use

Saving a favicon or logo file does not give you rights over it. The LinkedIn name and "in" mark are trademarks, and any permitted use is set by LinkedIn's brand and trademark guidelines. Brand guidelines commonly restrict changes such as recolouring, redrawing, stretching or combining the mark with other elements. Do not assume that a file you can download may be modified, used in your own branding, or presented in a way that implies endorsement. If you are building a dark-mode version for your own interface, confirm first that LinkedIn provides or permits that treatment rather than creating one yourself.

What remains to verify

• The current favicon file formats and pixel sizes LinkedIn serves
• Whether LinkedIn declares a separate dark-mode favicon
• Which logo variants and file formats LinkedIn's brand resources currently provide
• The exact colour specifications and clear-space rules for the "in" mark
• The specific usage conditions in LinkedIn's trademark guidelines for your intended use