Favicon Generator - Create Every Icon Size From One Image
Create favicons in multiple sizes for better branding.
Generating favicons...
About Favicon Generator
- Generates all standard favicon sizes
- Supports PNG, JPG, GIF, and SVG formats
- Includes .ico file for legacy browsers
- Apple Touch Icons for iOS devices
- Android Chrome icons (192x192, 512x512)
- Ready for all modern devices and platforms
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Upload one square image and this tool produces it at 16, 32, 48, 64, 128, 180, 192 and 512 pixels - the sizes browsers, mobile home screens and search results actually request. It is for shipping a complete icon set in one pass instead of exporting sizes by hand.
Why so many sizes
Different surfaces ask for different files. A browser tab wants 16 or 32. An iOS home screen shortcut uses the 180 pixel apple-touch-icon. Android home screens and PWA manifests use 192 and 512. Google's search results require an icon that is a multiple of 48 pixels square, which is what the 48 and 192 files cover. Ship one size and some of these fall back to a stretched or blank icon.
Worked example
With the files in place, reference them from the head:
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png">
<link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="192x192" href="/favicon-192x192.png">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">The rel="icon" lines cover browsers and search; apple-touch-icon covers iOS, which ignores the standard icon relation for home screen shortcuts.
Getting the source right
Start square and start large - 512 pixels or an SVG. Detail that reads at 512 disappears at 16, so favicons that work tend to be a single letter, a mark, or a simple silhouette rather than a shrunk logo with wordmark. Upscaling a small source will not add detail back.
Honest limits
Google caches favicons aggressively and only updates them when it recrawls the home page, so a change can take days or weeks to appear in results. The icon file also has to be crawlable: if it sits behind a rule that blocks it in robots.txt, Google will not display it regardless of the markup.
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Add the surrounding head tags with the meta tag generator, check the social preview image with the Open Graph checker, confirm the home page is indexed with check Google indexing, and review the full head with the meta tags analyzer. More in SEO tools.