With iPhone v1.1.3 and the iPod touch January Software Upgrade come the ability to customize your home screen with bookmarks to your favorite sites. By default, the bookmark icon is a thumbnail of the website, but webmasters can specify a custom icon if they so desire.

Because tiny thumbnails are often indistinguishable and thus not very helpful, I whipped up some custom icons for popular sites that either lacked them (at the time) or had ones I weren’t quite satisfied with, as well as some generic app icons. All are designed to be as simple and recognizable as possible.

To use any of these icons, you’ll need Drew McLellan’s bookmarklet for setting custom bookmark icons, which I’ve reproduced here. Simply drag it to Safari’s Bookmarks Bar, and then sync it to your iPhone or iPod touch: Set touch icon

After you’ve done so, you can specify whichever icons you’d like directly from this web server: http://iphone.graphr.net/icons/

You can also grab a zip file of all 37 icons available so far. I will likely be adding more as I make them.

If there are any other popular sites for which you’d like a custom bookmark icon (either because it doesn’t have one or could use a better one), drop me a comment and I just might give it a shot.