36.6 Favicon Creation
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A favicon (favourite icon) is the small (16x16 pixel) icon associated with a website that appears in a web browser’s tab. They are usually ico files though png and gif files are also supported by many browsers.
To create a favicon from a png:
To create a favicon from a svg:
convert favicon.svg -density 300 -define icon:auto-resize="256,128,96,64,48,32,16" -background none favicon.icoIn more detail, we can create a favicon from an svg image file using, for example, inkscape:
Create or edit the file and then check on the file details:
favicon.svg: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image
Other transformations can convert the svg file to the
favicon.png of choice:
favicon.png: PNG image data, 256 x 256, 16-bit/color RGBA, non-interlacedWe can change the colours to suit a light and dark background better by negating the current colours and replacing white with the new dominant colour. The result can be seen in the tab bar above or by visiting https://mlhub.ai.
To create a high quality set of icons within a single ico file, embedding a transparent png we can do:
favicon.ico: MS Windows icon resource - 7 icons, 256x256 withPNG image
data, 256 x 256, 16-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced, 32 bits/pixel,
128x128, 32 bits/pixelWe can then place the image file at the root of the website to be found by any web browser.
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