diff --git a/apps/web/app/api/favicon/route.ts b/apps/web/app/api/favicon/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f71347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/app/api/favicon/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { NextRequest } from 'next/server';
+
+// Always answers 200 with an image so a store logo is never a broken link.
+// See lib/logo.ts.
+
+const HOSTNAME = /^(?=.{1,253}$)([a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,61}[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z]{2,63}$/i;
+const CACHE = 'public, max-age=604800, s-maxage=604800, stale-while-revalidate=86400';
+
+function letterTile(domain: string): Response {
+  const letter = (domain.replace(/^www\./i, '')[0] ?? '?').toUpperCase().replace(/[^A-Z0-9]/, '?');
+  const svg = `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="64" height="64" viewBox="0 0 64 64"><rect width="64" height="64" rx="12" fill="#fff7ed"/><text x="32" y="42" font-family="system-ui,sans-serif" font-size="30" font-weight="900" text-anchor="middle" fill="#f97316">${letter}</text></svg>`;
+  return new Response(svg, { status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type': 'image/svg+xml', 'Cache-Control': CACHE } });
+}
+
+export async function GET(req: NextRequest) {
+  const domain = (req.nextUrl.searchParams.get('domain') ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
+  const sz = Math.min(256, Math.max(16, Number(req.nextUrl.searchParams.get('sz')) || 128));
+  if (!HOSTNAME.test(domain)) return letterTile(domain);
+
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch(`https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=${encodeURIComponent(domain)}&sz=${sz}`, {
+      redirect: 'follow',
+      signal: AbortSignal.timeout(5000),
+    });
+    const type = res.headers.get('content-type') ?? '';
+    // A 404 from Google still carries its generic globe icon; serve it as 200.
+    if (type.startsWith('image/')) {
+      const body = await res.arrayBuffer();
+      if (body.byteLength > 0) {
+        return new Response(body, { status: 200, headers: { 'Content-Type': type, 'Cache-Control': CACHE } });
+      }
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // fall through to the letter tile
+  }
+  return letterTile(domain);
+}
diff --git a/apps/web/app/stores/[slug]/page.tsx b/apps/web/app/stores/[slug]/page.tsx
index 90cd958..00ee063 100644
--- a/apps/web/app/stores/[slug]/page.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/app/stores/[slug]/page.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import type { Metadata } from 'next';
 import { cache } from 'react';
 import { notFound } from 'next/navigation';
 import Image from 'next/image';
+import { logoSrc } from '@/lib/logo';
 import CouponCard from '@/components/CouponCard';
 import { getDb } from '@/lib/db';
 import { Coupon, Store } from '@/lib/types';
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ export default async function StorePage({ params }: { params: Promise<{ slug: st
     <div className="flex flex-col gap-8">
       <div className="flex items-center gap-4 bg-white border border-gray-200 rounded-xl p-6">
         {store.logo_url ? (
-          <Image src={store.logo_url} alt={store.name} width={64} height={64} className="rounded object-contain" />
+          <Image {...logoSrc(store.logo_url)} alt={store.name} width={64} height={64} className="rounded object-contain" />
         ) : (
           <div className="w-16 h-16 bg-gray-100 rounded-full flex items-center justify-center text-2xl font-bold text-gray-400">
             {store.name[0]}
diff --git a/apps/web/components/CouponCard.tsx b/apps/web/components/CouponCard.tsx
index f3b4e53..a752bf3 100644
--- a/apps/web/components/CouponCard.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/components/CouponCard.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Link from 'next/link';
 import Image from 'next/image';
+import { logoSrc } from '@/lib/logo';
 import CopyButton from './CopyButton';
 import VoteButton from './VoteButton';
 import { Coupon } from '@/lib/types';
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ export default function CouponCard({ coupon }: { coupon: Coupon }) {
       <div className="flex items-center gap-2.5">
         {coupon.store_logo ? (
           <Image
-            src={coupon.store_logo}
+            {...logoSrc(coupon.store_logo)}
             alt={coupon.store_name ?? ''}
             width={32}
             height={32}
diff --git a/apps/web/components/StoreCard.tsx b/apps/web/components/StoreCard.tsx
index 2117671..80c2711 100644
--- a/apps/web/components/StoreCard.tsx
+++ b/apps/web/components/StoreCard.tsx
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Link from 'next/link';
 import Image from 'next/image';
+import { logoSrc } from '@/lib/logo';
 import { Store } from '@/lib/types';
 
 interface StoreWithCount extends Store {
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ export default function StoreCard({ store }: { store: StoreWithCount }) {
     >
       {store.logo_url ? (
         <Image
-          src={store.logo_url}
+          {...logoSrc(store.logo_url)}
           alt={store.name}
           width={48}
           height={48}
diff --git a/apps/web/lib/logo.ts b/apps/web/lib/logo.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2cc7bb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apps/web/lib/logo.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// Store logos scraped from Reddit/nichedb/Flipp often fall back to Google's s2
+// favicon service. For domains Google has no icon for it answers 404 (with a
+// generic globe PNG as the body), and next/image passes that 404 straight
+// through, so /_next/image?url=...s2/favicons... showed up as broken links.
+// Those URLs are routed through /api/favicon instead, which always answers 200
+// with an image (Google's icon, its globe, or a letter tile).
+
+const GOOGLE_FAVICON = /^https:\/\/www\.google\.com\/s2\/favicons\?/i;
+
+export function logoSrc(url: string): { src: string; unoptimized: boolean } {
+  if (!GOOGLE_FAVICON.test(url)) return { src: url, unoptimized: false };
+  const params = new URL(url).searchParams;
+  const domain = params.get('domain') ?? '';
+  const sz = params.get('sz') ?? '128';
+  return {
+    src: `/api/favicon?domain=${encodeURIComponent(domain)}&sz=${encodeURIComponent(sz)}`,
+    // A 16-128px icon gains nothing from the optimizer, and a local src with a
+    // query string would need images.localPatterns.
+    unoptimized: true,
+  };
+}