diff --git a/public/favicon.ico b/public/favicon.ico
deleted file mode 100644
index 676a82793960819258afb72db628370d10aaac41..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Binary files a/public/favicon.ico and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index 4dc9b63298689fb10a38cc504fe34d4229f2eda3..de0fbbf6f61494a147a11bbc37fb072d2fe0541c 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 <html lang="en">
   <head>
     <meta charset="utf-8" />
-    <link rel="icon" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" />
+    <link rel="icon" href="https://static.igem.io/common/icons/favicon.svg" />
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
     <meta name="theme-color" content="#000000" />
     <link rel="manifest" href="%PUBLIC_URL%/manifest.json" />
diff --git a/public/manifest.json b/public/manifest.json
index 81b0b9de804d441ba01d662e88ae7d876e80694a..2d99eefe508d2dd196b20cada03d5508236f8c9b 100644
--- a/public/manifest.json
+++ b/public/manifest.json
@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@
   "name": "iGEM",
   "icons": [
     {
-      "src": "favicon.ico",
-      "sizes": "64x64 32x32 24x24 16x16",
-      "type": "image/x-icon"
+      "src": "https://static.igem.io/common/icons/favicon.svg",
+      "type": "image/svg+xml"
     }
   ],
   "start_url": ".",