Having marvelled at David Desandro’s Opera Logo made entirely in HTML and CSS, I wanted to try a similar experiment for myself. So with a large scoop of border-radius I set about trying to create various ‘common’ icons that could be used in your web apps.

CSS3 is awesome, but the new syntax is sometimes hard to get your head around. Thankfully though, a few kind souls have created some very useful tools to generate the code for you.