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PNG to ICO converter with a favicon pack

Make a free .ico with 16, 32, 48 and 256 pixel icons from a PNG, JPG or SVG, and download a favicon pack with the other icon sizes and the lines to paste into your page. Nothing is uploaded.

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What an ICO file is

An ICO is a small container that holds the same icon at several sizes. Windows uses it for program and shortcut icons, and browsers ask for /favicon.ico by default when a page does not name an icon. Each picture inside this one is a PNG, so transparency is kept. The sizes are usually: 16 for a browser tab, 32 for a sharper tab or the taskbar, 48 for a desktop shortcut and 256 for a large icon in Windows.

What goes wrong with favicons

  • One size only. An icon made at one size is blurry at the others. The ICO here holds the sizes you tick; 16, 32 and 48 start ticked.
  • A picture that is too small. A 100 pixel logo cannot make a sharp 256 pixel icon. The page tells you when a size is enlarged, so you know why it looks soft.
  • A picture that is not square. Choose Fit it all to centre the whole picture on a clear square, or Fill the square to fill it and cut the longer side.
  • Black corners on iPhones. The apple-touch icon cannot be transparent; iPhones fill clear areas with black. The pack lays that one picture over a background colour you choose.
  • A stale icon. Browsers keep favicons for a long time. After you upload a new one, close the tab, or clear the cache for that one site.

The favicon pack

With ICO selected, a Favicon pack button saves one ZIP: favicon.ico with your chosen sizes, apple-touch-icon.png at 180 pixels, icon-192.png and icon-512.png (for a web app manifest), and a text file with the lines to paste into the head of your page. Making the pack is free.

The settings, for this conversion

  • Sizes. Tick any of 16, 32, 48 and 256.
  • A picture that is not square. Fit it all, or Fill the square.
  • Background of the apple-touch icon. White to start.

How to do it

  1. Drop a square logo or icon: PNG, JPG or SVG.
  2. Tick the sizes, and choose how a non-square picture is placed.
  3. Download the ICO, or the Favicon pack for the full set.

Open the picture here, choose how to save it, and download. Everything happens in this page: the picture is read and rewritten by your browser, with no upload and no account. You can confirm that on the Network tab of your browser's developer tools.

One picture, or a whole folder

Converting one picture at a time is free, with no watermark and no limit. If you load several, you can pick any of them to preview and save on its own. Pro converts every loaded picture in one go and saves them as one ZIP (up to 30 at a time) with a short report of what was made. Each picture in a batch becomes its own .ico.

Other conversions

The same tool opens with a different pair on each page, and any picture works on any page.

Questions

Which sizes should I include?

For a website, 16, 32 and 48 cover tabs and shortcuts; add 256 if the file will also be used as a Windows icon. The pack adds the 180, 192 and 512 pixel PNGs that phones and web app manifests ask for.

Does the ICO keep transparency?

Yes. Each size is a PNG with its transparency inside the ICO. Only the apple-touch icon is laid over a background colour, because iPhones fill clear areas with black.

Can I start from an SVG?

Yes. Drop an SVG and it is drawn at a large size first, then reduced to each icon size, so edges stay clean. If the page refuses an SVG, the message says why.

Where do I put favicon.ico?

In the top folder of your site, next to the home page. The pack's text file has the lines to add to your pages and a small manifest for the 192 and 512 pixel icons.

Can I make many pictures at once?

You can load up to 30 pictures and look at each one, but saving them one by one is free and saving them all at once is part of Pro: one ZIP with every converted file and a short report. Your first batch on a device is free to try.

Is my picture uploaded?

No. The picture is opened and rewritten by your browser, in this page, and the page has no code that sends a file anywhere. The site counts that a tool was used and that a file of a certain type was saved, never the picture or its name.