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Favicon Generator

Make a favicon from an emoji, letter or upload — download all the sizes.

  • 🎨 Design Tool
  • ✓ Free
  • ✓ No sign-up
  • ✓ Private — runs in your browser
  • ✓ Any device

Transparent by default — add a fill if your emoji is hard to see on the tab strip.

Themes:
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Live browser-tab preview ·

All sizes

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Put the downloaded PNGs in your site root (or /icons) so the paths match. 100% private — every pixel is generated in your browser.

Why you’ll love Favicon Generator

Instant & freeNo signup, no paywall, no limits — Favicon Generator works the moment the page loads.
Completely privateEverything runs in your browser. Nothing you enter is ever uploaded or stored on a server.
Works on any deviceFully responsive and touch-friendly — use it on your phone, tablet or desktop.
Copy & exportGrab the CSS, SVG or a PNG in one click and drop it into your project.

How to use it

  1. 01

    Open it

    No download and no login — the tool is ready right at the top of this page.

  2. 02

    Use it

    Enter your details or start interacting. Everything updates live as you go.

  3. 03

    Get your result

    Copy, download or share your result in a single tap. That’s it.

About Favicon Generator

There are three ways to make a favicon here: pick an emoji (transparent background by default, with an optional colour fill), type one or two letters and style them with fonts, gradients and ready-made themes, or upload your own logo and fine-tune it with zoom and padding controls. Whatever you choose can be shaped as a square, a circle or a rounded square with an adjustable corner radius.

The preview panel is built around the one place a favicon actually lives: a mock browser tab shows your icon at true 16-pixel scale next to a page title, and you can flip the tab between light and dark themes to check contrast in both. A size strip below renders the icon at 16, 32, 48, 180 and 512 pixels so nothing surprises you after download.

Exports cover the full modern checklist in one ZIP: PNGs at every size, a 180px apple-touch-icon for iOS home screens, 192px and 512px PWA icons with a matching site.webmanifest, a genuine multi-resolution favicon.ico, and an HTML snippet of link tags ready to paste into your head element. Every pixel is drawn on a canvas in your browser — an uploaded logo never leaves your device.

Popular uses

  • ✦ Ship a complete favicon set — ICO, PNGs, apple-touch-icon and manifest — in one ZIP
  • ✦ Spin up a quick emoji favicon for a side project or landing page
  • ✦ Create a letter monogram icon for a personal brand or SaaS
  • ✦ Convert an existing logo into every required icon size with zoom and padding control
  • ✦ Check tab legibility in both dark and light browser themes before shipping

Frequently asked questions

Which favicon sizes do I actually need?
A 32px PNG covers most desktop tabs, favicon.ico handles legacy browsers and old bookmarks, 180px is the apple-touch-icon iOS uses for home-screen shortcuts, and 192px plus 512px feed the Android/PWA web manifest. The ZIP download includes all of them plus a site.webmanifest, so one download satisfies browser, iOS and PWA requirements at once.
Is the favicon.ico a real ICO file or a renamed PNG?
A real one. The tool writes a genuine multi-image ICO container byte by byte in your browser: a proper ICO header and directory with 16, 32 and 48 pixel PNG-encoded entries. Browsers pick the resolution they need from the single file, which a renamed PNG cannot do.
Where do I put the files and the copied link tags?
Unzip the files into your site's root directory (or a folder like /icons) and paste the copied link tags into the head of your HTML. The snippet references root paths such as /favicon-32x32.png and /site.webmanifest, so if you host the icons in a subfolder, update the href paths to match.
Will an emoji favicon look the same for every visitor?
Yes — and that is a real advantage of this approach. The emoji is rasterised into PNG pixels using your system's emoji font at export time, so every visitor sees exactly the image you downloaded. SVG-based emoji favicons, by contrast, render in each visitor's own emoji style and can look different per platform.
Why does my icon look muddy at 16 pixels, and how do I fix it?
Sixteen pixels leaves no room for detail: thin strokes and small text simply vanish. Use the tab mock to judge honestly, then simplify — one or two bold letters instead of a full wordmark, a solid or gradient fill behind emoji for contrast, larger corner radius sparingly, and check the dark-tab preview since many users browse in dark mode.
Is Favicon Generator free to use?
Favicon Generator is 100% free — no signup, no watermarks and no usage limits. It’s one of 200+ free tools we build and give away.
Can I use the output commercially?
Yes — copy the code or download the image and use it freely in personal and commercial projects.

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