About This Tool

The goal of Favicon Party is simple; give a no-fuss and really fast means of producing sets of icons for websites and progressive web apps.

That does mean reducing the number of settings/options and having opinionated defaults, but the output files should be enough for most situations and if you're familiar with web icon specs you may choose to edit the files in your icon pack before you use them.

Icon Uploads

Uploads are quite restrictive (PNG up to 256 KB) but there are reasons...

PNG is the best source format for icons* which overwhelmingly tend to have sharp edges and solid colours. This restriction means your icon's derivative files are starting from the right place.
* Watch this space for SVG support though!

The 256KB format is admittedly self-serving to help limit server resource requirements. It's more than enough for source icons at 512x512px (that largest conversion generated) and means Favicon Party can scale without prohibitively high running costs.

Pack Downloads

The "Icon Pack" is a zip archive that contains the following files:

• A file called head.html which contains the code you must add to your website's HTML head.
• A file called manifest.json that will need to be included in a web-accessible directory on your web server. You may want to edit this file if you need too add any extra functionality or change the defaults.
• A collection of .png icons at various useful resolutions.
• A single favicon.ico which isn't actually used by anything Favicon Party configures, but web browsers still often try to load this old default without asking so you may like to drop it into the root directory of your website to avoid 404s.

You icons and manifest.json should typically go into the same directory, as specified in the project's configuration and mentioned in the head.html code.

Free and Private

This is tool to simplify a recurring task and same time, specially in a multi-discipline environment when web designs and developers what to jointly input into a website/PWA icon visual & tech spec. before handing it over the development team for implementation.

Please look at the privacy & security page to read about how your data is used by Favicon Party ... basically we aren't interested in looking at it and we don't retain it.

Feedback

This is a brand new tool as of early 2024 so once initial development has been bedded in there'll be means to give feedback and offer suggestions for improvement.