Favicon Generator
Turn any image into favicon and app icon sizes
About the Favicon Generator
A favicon is the tiny logo that sits in the browser tab, the bookmarks bar, and the home screen when someone saves your site — and getting one out of a single logo file usually means wrestling with an image editor. This generator skips all of that: drop in one PNG, JPG, or WebP and it produces every size a modern site needs in one pass.
Behind the scenes it draws your image onto an HTML5 canvas and rescales it to 16×16, 32×32, 48×48, 180×180, 192×192, and 512×512 — the set that covers browser tabs, the Apple touch icon iOS uses for home-screen shortcuts, and the larger icons Android and progressive web apps reference in a manifest. Non-square images are centre-cropped to a square rather than squashed, so a wide logo still looks right.
Designers handing off a brand mark, indie developers shipping a side project, and anyone replacing the default Next.js or WordPress icon will find it faster than exporting sizes by hand. The "Download All" button bundles every PNG plus a ready-to-paste block of link tags into a single ZIP.
How to Use the Favicon Generator
- Drag an image onto the upload zone, or click to browse — PNG, JPG, and WebP are accepted.
- Wait a moment while each size is rendered; the preview grid fills in automatically.
- Toggle the light/dark background button to check how the icon reads against both browser themes.
- Click "Download All (.zip)" for the full set, or grab a single size with its individual PNG link.
- Open the included favicon-snippet.html and paste the link tags into your page's head.
Why Use ToolForge’s Favicon Generator
- Everything runs locally on a canvas in your browser — your logo is never uploaded to a server, so unreleased branding stays private.
- One upload yields the complete modern set, including the 180×180 Apple touch icon and the 192/512 sizes PWAs need, not just a lone 16×16.
- The light/dark preview catches the common mistake of a dark icon that vanishes against a dark tab strip before you ship it.
- The ZIP ships with the exact HTML link tags, so wiring the favicon into your site is copy-and-paste rather than guesswork.
Frequently Asked Questions
What favicon sizes do I actually need in 2025?
For broad coverage you want 16×16 and 32×32 for browser tabs, 180×180 for the Apple touch icon used by iOS home screens, and 192×192 plus 512×512 referenced by your web app manifest for Android and PWAs. This tool generates all of them at once.
Does this create a real .ico file?
No — it outputs PNG icons, which every current browser supports via link tags, plus a conventional favicon.png. The legacy multi-resolution .ico format is not produced here; if you specifically need favicon.ico, point your 32×32 PNG through a dedicated ICO converter.
Is my uploaded image sent anywhere?
It is not. The file is read with the browser FileReader API and drawn to a canvas entirely on your device. Nothing is transmitted, which makes the tool safe for logos that have not been announced yet.
My logo is rectangular — will it be distorted?
No. A non-square source is scaled to cover the square and centred, so it is cropped rather than stretched. For the cleanest result, start from a square image or one with even padding around the mark.
