Map Pin Emoji Favicon

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The round pushpin is the location marker every mapping product taught people to read, so it signals place with no explanation at all. Its teardrop body is bold and tall, and it keeps its identity as it shrinks better than nearly anything else object-shaped here. It is also very literal, which helps local services and hurts anything abstract.

A store locator, a city guide, or a local business directory. It misleads on travel-planning products by implying a single place when the product is about many, and it misleads on anything using it metaphorically for pinned or saved items, since the mapping convention is now strong enough to override the older push-pin sense entirely.

Map Pin in a crowded tab strip

A red teardrop pointing downward is an unusual mass distribution, so this reacquires quickly. Its collisions are the angled pushpin, the same object with a visible needle and a quite different meaning, and the balloon, a similar red mass with its weight at the top rather than the bottom. That vertical flip is easy to misread at a glance.

What map pin looks like at 16 pixels

At 16 pixels beside a page title you keep the round head and the tapering point, and the whole thing sits as one solid convex red shape. There is no interior detail to lose beyond a small highlight, and losing it changes nothing. This is one of only a handful of glyphs here that is genuinely as legible at 16 pixels as at 512. The red teardrop is a solid convex shape and reads cleanly at 16 pixels. Only the small highlight on the head is lost.

Where vendors disagree about map pin

Vendors differ on whether the pin has a visible hole or dot at its centre and on how sharply it tapers. Apple draws a smooth teardrop with a small white centre; some Android designs draw a blunter shape with no centre mark at all. The centre mark is the first thing lost small, so its presence changes little, but it does change how the icon reads at 180 pixels.

Where the glyph itself comes from

Your map pin icon is drawn on your device by your own colour emoji font, so it matches your platform rather than being a consistent cross-platform design. MiniPx ships no emoji artwork. Emoji are colour glyphs, so the .ico carries colour PNG payloads with alpha.

How it works

Open the map pin page: Nothing to install. The renderer starts drawing 📍 the moment this page loads.
Set the map pin fill: Tight runs 📍 to the edge of the square, Balanced leaves a transparent margin, Roomy pads it.
Judge map pin at 16 pixels: The red teardrop is a solid convex shape and reads cleanly at 16 pixels. Only the small highlight on the head is lost.
Install the map pin set: favicon.ico and the map pin PNGs go at your site root; the 192 and 512px renders go in your manifest.

Frequently asked questions

What should I use instead of map pin?

The round pushpin and the pushpin are the pair to keep straight: the angled pushpin means a note on a board, not a place on a map, and swapping them is the most common mistake here. If the meaning is a place you can visit rather than a coordinate, the house and the office building are more specific.

Where does the map pin emoji come from?

Encoded in Unicode 6.0 as "round pushpin". Its map-marker meaning came entirely from web mapping interfaces of the late 2000s, which used a teardrop marker, and vendors have retrofitted the emoji to that convention by drawing it more and more like a map pin over time.

Which sites does 📍 mislead?

It misleads on travel-planning products by implying a single place when the product is about many, and it misleads on anything using it metaphorically for pinned or saved items, since the mapping convention is now strong enough to override the older push-pin sense entirely.

Is map pin readable at 16 pixels?

Holds up well at 16 pixels. The red teardrop is a solid convex shape and reads cleanly at 16 pixels. Only the small highlight on the head is lost. At 16 pixels beside a page title you keep the round head and the tapering point, and the whole thing sits as one solid convex red shape. There is no interior detail to lose beyond a small highlight, and losing it changes nothing. This is one of only a handful of glyphs here that is genuinely as legible at 16 pixels as at 512.