Favicon Generator

About the Favicon Generator Tool

The Favicon Generator creates every favicon size a modern website needs - from the classic 16 by 16 browser tab icon to the 512 by 512 maskable icon Android uses - and then hands you the ready-to-paste HTML code. A favicon is the small logo next to your site title in the browser tab, and it shows up in bookmarks, history, search results, and mobile home screens. It is one of the smallest elements of a website and one of the most visible signs of polish.

What makes favicons fiddly is that different platforms want different sizes. Desktop browsers use 16 and 32 pixel icons, Apple devices look for apple-touch-icon at 180 pixels, and Android expects icons at 192 and 512 pixels. Generating all of them by hand is tedious and error-prone. This tool does it in one pass from a single source image, so you can add a complete favicon set to your project in under a minute.

How to Generate a Favicon Set

Start with a square source image. A 512 by 512 PNG with your logo centered and some padding around it works best, because the generator produces every size from this one file and small sizes shrink toward the center. Upload the image and the tool creates the full set: the classic ICO file, the 16, 32, 48, and 180 pixel PNGs for browsers and Apple devices, and the 192 and 512 pixel icons for Android home screens.

Download the generated files and place them in the root of your website. Then copy the HTML code the tool provides and paste it into the head section of your pages - it includes the link tags for the favicon, the apple touch icon, and the Android icons so every platform picks up the right file. Save and refresh your site; the new icon appears in the tab once the browser caches it.

Favicon Best Practices

• Use a high-resolution square source image so the 512 pixel version does not have to be upscaled, which blurs it.
• Keep your design simple - at 16 pixels, complex detail turns into noise, so bold shapes and high contrast win.
• Place files at the site root so the browser finds them automatically, and the HTML link tags still work from any page.
• Test in an incognito window after publishing, since browsers cache favicons aggressively and may show the old one.
• Match the favicon to your logo and brand color so tabs, bookmarks, and home screens all reinforce the same identity.