🎨 Favicon Generator

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Upload your source image

Drag and drop PNG, JPG, or SVG

Character / Emoji

Background Shape

Background Color

Text/Icon Color

Font Family

Live Preview (96x96)

Source: Generator Mode

⚙️ Package Options

Select Sizes to Include

favicon.ico (32x32 legacy compatibility)

favicon-16x16.png (Modern standard)

favicon-32x32.png (Modern standard)

apple-touch-icon.png (180x180 iOS Web Clip)

android-chrome-192.png & 512.png (PWA Manifest)

Best Practices for Favicons

For optimal rendering, your source image should ideally be square and have high-contrast foreground objects. Standard desktop browser tabs display favicons at 16x16 pixels, which is highly constrained. Avoid placing complex illustrations or long text strings inside your favicons as they will become unreadable. Opt for simple icons, clean initials, or single emojis with strong colored background frames.

Favicon Generator – Create Web Icons Online

Favicon Generator is a secure, client-side developer utility that lets you generate fully compliant multi-platform favicon packages. Convert any image, or create an icon from scratch using emojis, text, shapes, and custom color presets locally in your browser.

What is a Favicon?

A favicon (short for "favorite icon") is a small icon associated with a website, displayed in browser tabs, bookmarks bars, history records, and search engine result snippets. Having a modern, high-contrast favicon is essential for branding, user recognition, and search engine optimization (SEO) credibility.

Why use our client-side generator?

Standard favicon generation websites require uploading your brand images to their remote servers, which consumes bandwidth and presents security risks. This generator executes 100% locally in your browser window. Using HTML5 Canvas, WebAssembly buffers, and JSZip, it parses, crops, downscales, compiles binary ICO headers, and packs the assets into a ZIP file locally in memory.

Standard Favicon Package Sizes:

📁 favicon.ico: The legacy multi-resolution format (32x32) required for compatibility with older web browsers.
🌐 favicon-16x16.png & favicon-32x32.png: Standard modern PNG favicons for modern desktop browsers.
🍎 apple-touch-icon.png: 180x180 high-resolution icon utilized by iOS devices when users bookmark or pin your site to their home screens.
🤖 android-chrome (192x192 & 512x512): Android-specific web manifest icons for Web App shortcuts and Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

Frequently Asked Questions

Simply download the ZIP package, extract all files into the root directory of your web server, and paste the included HTML link tags into the <head> section of your site templates. The ZIP includes a clear instruction guide.

No. All canvas rendering, color fills, text drawing, and file packing happen locally inside your browser memory sandbox. Your design assets remain 100% private.