Deep Dive: ICO Converter & Favicon Maker
Create professional favicons and .ico files from any image. Generates all standard sizes (16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 128x128, 256x256) with customizable background color and smart resizing. Perfect for website developers and designers.
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Privacy Architecture
This tool uses client-side WebAssembly to ensure your data never touches a server. Secure, fast, and 100% private by design.
Core Capabilities
- Multi-size ICO packing (16px to 256px)
- High-quality Lanczos downsampling
- Transparency (Alpha) channel preservation
- Real-time tiny-icon preview
- One-click download of the complete ICO bundle
- 100% private and runs entirely in your browser
Why It Matters
- Professionalism: Give your website that "finished" feel with a crisp tab icon.
- UX: Help users find your site easily in a sea of open tabs.
- Simplicity: One file handles every browser and device resolution.
- Privacy: Your high-res company logos never touch our servers.
Quick Start Guide
Use a square PNG or JPG. 500x500 is a great size to start with.
Tick the boxes for what you need. We recommend at least 16x16 and 32x32 for most websites.
If your logo is on a transparent background, we’ll preserve that in the final icon.
Check our live preview to make sure your logo is still readable at the 16px size.
Hit the download button and place the `favicon.ico` in your website’s root folder. Boom! Professional branding.
Questions?
Technical Architecture
Canvas-based Downsampling
We use the HTML5 Canvas API to perform multiple "off-screen" renders of your image. This allows us to use high-quality interpolation algorithms that prevent the "aliasing" (jagged edges) common in simpler resizing tools.
Binary ICO Serialization
The `.ico` format is a specific binary structure. Our tool manually builds the file’s Header, Directory, and Bitmap chunks in a Uint8Array, ensuring that the file is bit-perfect and compatible with the Windows Icon Specification.
Alpha Channel Mapping
We extract the RGBA data from the canvas and map the transparency values to a "one-bitmask" or 32-bit alpha-blend depending on the target size, ensuring 100% transparency fidelity across all platforms.
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