About this studio

Pikkola, tool No. 10

Every site needs an icon. Almost nobody enjoys making one.

The small annoyance

A favicon is the first thing a browser asks for and the last thing anyone prepares. You export a logo, resize it four ways, discover the ICO needs its own format, hunt for a manifest, then find out the icon is a grey square at 16 pixels. Meanwhile the site that offers to do it wants your file on its server, and the free tier forgets your work when you come back.

What this does instead

It reads the picture in the tab, draws each size on a canvas with the shape and padding you choose, and builds the files in memory: an ICO with three sizes inside, six PNGs, a manifest and, if you want it, a vector SVG. Then it hands you a ZIP. The download is the only thing that leaves the page, and it leaves in your direction.

What it will not do

It will not make you an account, keep a gallery of your logos, or email you a link that expires. There is no queue, no watermark and no upgrade. If this tool disappears tomorrow, the files you took today keep working, because nothing in them points back here.

How the shapes are drawn

Square, rounded, circle and squircle share one path builder, so the canvas preview and the SVG export describe exactly the same outline. The squircle is a superellipse with exponent five, sampled into 128 points. Padding is a percentage of the icon, which is why the same number keeps Android's maskable crop off the mark at every size.

If something is wrong

Write to [email protected] with the file you used and what you expected. Small tools get better from exactly that kind of mail.