Free Favicon Generator every size + HTML tags

A favicon is the tiny icon that represents your website everywhere it is referenced — the browser tab, the bookmark bar, the history list, the search-results card, and the home-screen shortcut when someone saves your page to their phone. It is one of the smallest assets you will ever ship, yet it does an outsized amount of work: it is the visual shorthand for your brand in a crowded row of open tabs, and it is the first thing many people consciously look for when they scan for the right tab to switch back to. A site without a favicon shows a generic blank-page icon, which looks unfinished and makes your tab harder to find — and a favicon that is blurry or wrongly sized looks just as unprofessional. Getting it right is a low-effort, high-trust signal that your site is properly built.

The reason you need more than a single file is that modern browsers and operating systems request the icon at many different sizes for many different contexts. A browser tab typically uses a 16×16 or 32×32 image, a Windows taskbar and shortcut want 48×48, Android Chrome pulls 192×192 and 512×512 for installed progressive web apps, and Apple devices look for a 180×180 apple-touch-icon when a page is added to the iOS home screen. If you only provide one large image, smaller renderings are downscaled on the fly and often come out fuzzy; if you only provide one small image, it looks pixelated when it is blown up for a home-screen tile. Supplying a purpose-built file for each size means every surface gets a crisp, correctly-proportioned icon, which is exactly what this generator produces in a single pass.

It also matters that you ship the right markup, not just the right files. Browsers do not magically find every icon — they read the <link> tags in your page head, match the declared sizes attribute against the size they need, and pick the closest fit. Miss the apple-touch-icon tag and iOS falls back to a low-quality screenshot of your page; forget the manifest reference and Android cannot offer an install prompt at all. Because the correct combination of rel, type and sizes attributes is easy to get subtly wrong, this generator writes the tags for you alongside the images, so the icon you preview is exactly the icon a visitor will see. That removes the most common reason a favicon looks broken in production: a perfect image wired up with imperfect HTML.

There is a long-standing tension between the old .ico format and modern PNGs that trips up a lot of people. For years the de-facto standard was a single multi-resolution favicon.ico bundling 16, 32 and 48px frames, and many browsers still automatically request /favicon.ico from your site root even when no link tag points to it. Today, however, PNG icons declared explicitly via link tags give you sharper rendering, alpha transparency and far easier editing. The pragmatic answer most production sites use — and the one this tool follows — is to do both: serve crisp per-size PNGs through link tags for every modern surface, while also shipping a favicon.ico fallback at the root so legacy clients are never left with a blank square.

Doing this work inside the browser is a deliberate privacy choice, not just a convenience. When you select an image, it is decoded onto an HTML canvas, resampled with high-quality smoothing into each required dimension, and packaged into a downloadable ZIP — your file is never uploaded to a server, never stored, and never seen by anyone but you. That local-first approach matters for unreleased logos, client work under NDA, and anyone who simply prefers not to hand their brand assets to a third-party service whose retention policy they have never read. It is also faster, because there is no round-trip to a backend: the moment the image loads, every size is ready, along with the exact HTML link tags and a starter web manifest.

Finally, a favicon generator saves you from a tedious, error-prone manual workflow. Doing this by hand means opening an image editor, exporting ten separate squares at exactly the right pixel dimensions, naming each file to match a convention browsers expect, hand-writing a block of link tags, authoring a JSON web manifest, and remembering the .ico fallback — and then repeating all of it the next time the logo changes. Any mismatch between a filename, a path and a sizes attribute results in a missing or wrong icon that is hard to notice and harder to debug, since browsers cache favicons aggressively. Generating the whole set at once, from a single source image, turns a fiddly half-hour chore into a few seconds and guarantees the files, the names and the markup all agree.