diff --git a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
index 0e22c2623..57beb0da9 100644
--- a/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/layouts/application.html.haml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
%meta{"http-equiv"=>"Content-Type", :content=>"text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
- %link{:rel => 'shortcut icon', :href => '/favicon.ico'}
+ %link{:rel => 'shortcut icon', :href => '/favicon.png'}
%link{:rel => 'apple-touch-icon', :href => '/apple-touch-icon.png'}
/ Social Media Icons are by Paul Robert Lloyd @ http://paulrobertlloyd.com/2009/06/social_media_icons
diff --git a/public/favicon.png b/public/favicon.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..72d6b3e02
Binary files /dev/null and b/public/favicon.png differ