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Favicon & ICO generator

Upload a square logo and get every favicon size a website needs: a proper multi-size .ico for browser tabs, plus the larger PNGs modern phones and installed web apps expect.

How to use the favicon & ico generator

  1. Choose a square image — ideally 512×512 or larger, so nothing needs to be scaled up.
  2. Press generate.
  3. Download the .ico and PNG files, then add the two link tags shown to your page's head.

How it works

A modern favicon.ico is not one image but a small container holding several sizes, so the browser can pick whichever fits its tab or bookmark bar most sharply — this generates the standard 16×16 and 32×32 pair inside one .ico file, which every browser still expects as a baseline.

Phones and installed web apps go further: iOS looks for a 180×180 apple-touch-icon, and Android and desktop PWA installs commonly use a 512×512 PNG in the web app manifest. Providing all four sizes covers a browser tab, a phone home screen, and an installed app icon from one source image.

Common questions

Why isn't one image enough for a favicon?

Different places show it at very different sizes — a 16-pixel browser tab and a 512-pixel home screen icon both need to look sharp, which a single fixed-size image can't do well at both ends.

What size logo should I start with?

512×512 or larger, and square. Scaling a small image up to fill a large icon slot just produces a blurry result.

Where do I put the generated files?

In the root of your website alongside your other pages, then link them from the head of your HTML using the tags shown after generating.

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