X-Icon Editor is a free web app recommended by Thomas Fuchs in his otherwise excellent Retinafy Your Website flowchart, but the problem I found with it (other than the inherent clunkiness of a web app in general) is that it did awful things to colors - the colors in the ICO files it generated did not match the colors in my source PNG files. There’s a command line tool named png2ico but it doesn’t handle alpha channel transparency, apparently by design, so it’s only suitable for full-frame icons. IConvertIcons doesn’t do multi-resource ICOs.
Apple has a free developer tool named Icon Composer that seemingly does what we want (pretty much the same thing as Icon Slate - with drag-and-drop targets for images edited elsewhere), but the resulting ICO files don’t render in Chrome and apparently don’t render properly on Windows. I found no other tool that suited my needs. Icon Slate lets you easily compose, import and export desktop icons in many. That’s it - you should now have a favicon.ico containing two icon resources, one for non-retina and one for retina. Popular Alternatives to Icon Slate for Web, Android, iPhone, Windows. Drag the PNG files for your 16 and 32 px icons into the corresponding image wells in the project window. Change the build settings to output only ICO (it defaults to outputting both ICO and ICNS). Next, create a new project in Icon Slate. Export each icon size to its own PNG file. With unlimited floating windows that stay-on-top, giving you space to do even more Whether you want to follow tutorials in real-time as you code, relax. You'll have a clean slate, and new program icons will be added according to. First, create your 16 × 16 and 32 × 32 px icons in the image editing application of your choice - Acorn, Pixelmator, or Photoshop probably. If there's any dynamic icon you want to get rid of, just right-click that. It costs $5 in the Mac App Store and is worth every penny. The app I found that works best is Icon Slate, by Kodlian. ICO files support other resolutions as well, but I see no practical utility in doing so. The proper solution, however, is to create a single favicon.ico file containing two icon resources: one 16 × 16, the other 32 × 32. The lazy way to support retina is to replace your old 16 px favicon.ico file with a 32 px file, and allow non-retina browsers to scale the image. Old (non-retina) favicons are 16 × 16 px a retina favicon is thus 32 × 32 px. I found this trickier to accomplish than I anticipated, mainly due to a dearth of good ICO-savvy icon creation tools.
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How to Create Retina-Caliber Favicons Friday, 4 January 2013Ī few months ago I decided to recreate this website’s favicon to support retina-caliber displays.
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