ePub File Icon

Lately I've grown tired of seeing the default Windows system icon representing .epub files, and decided to go looking for a new one. Since the official ePUB logo was revealed well over a year ago - way back in April of 2010, in fact, when Ralph Burkhardt's design was chosen as the winning entry - I would have thought by now an official icon would appear on .epub files in system folders. But sadly that's not the case. Not only that, but I couldn't readily find a good one based on the official logo. So I made one. Now all my .epub files are represented by this readily recognizable little green "e", to which I've added a bit of style in Photoshop.



Right-click the image above to download the linked icon file (not the .png image itself, but the file it links to), which is a 256 x 256 .ico file. For Windows 7 users you'll have to use a file manager such as FileTypesMan to change the default icon, since the "change icon" option is for some inexplicable reason no longer available in folder options or context menus for anything but shortcuts. In lieu of an official icon this should hold you over in the meantime.