The Ultimate Guide to Favicon Sizes in 2025

The humble favicon. It started as a tiny 16x16 pixel image in the browser address bar. Today, it's the visual anchor of your digital brand across a fragmented ecosystem of devices, operating systems, and interfaces.

If you rely on a single favicon.ico file in 2025, your brand is looking blurry, cropped, or missing on millions of screens.

The Modern Favicon Ecosystem

Why do we need so many sizes? Because every platform has a different opinion on how to display your logo.

1. Desktop Browsers: They still use the classic 16x16 and 32x32 sizes for tabs and bookmarks.
2. Google Search on Mobile: Google results often display a 48x48 icon next to your URL. If yours is missing or low-res, users might click the competitor next door.
3. iOS Home Screen: When a user adds your site to their iPhone home screen, iOS looks for a high-resolution apple-touch-icon.png (180x180). Without it, it takes a screenshot of your page—which usually looks terrible as an app icon.
4. Android & PWAs: Progressive Web Apps on Android need a manifest with 192x192 and 512x512 icons to look like native apps in the app drawer and splash screen.
5. Windows Tiles: Pinning a site to the Start menu on Windows requires specific metadata and tile images (144x144 or larger).

The Complexity of Consistency

Creating these assets manually is a nightmare.

• You need to resize your logo to at least 10 different resolutions.
• You need to convert them to different formats (ICO for legacy, PNG for modern).
• You need to write the correct HTML <link> tags and JSON manifest.
• You need to handle transparent vs. solid backgrounds (iOS icons shouldn't have transparency, but Android ones can).

Solve It in Seconds

This complexity is why we built the Favicon Generator. It takes your single high-resolution source image (SVG or PNG) and instantly automates the entire process.

What Our Generator Does:

• Smart Resizing: We generate every critical size: 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, 144, 152, 180, 192, 256, 384, and 512 pixels.
• Format Optimization: We create modern PNGs for quality and a legacy-compatible ICO bundle.
• Code Generation: We write the HTML and manifest code for you. Just copy, paste, and deploy.
• Privacy Focused: Like all our tools, this happens 100% in your browser. Your logo is never uploaded to our servers.

In a competitive web, polish matters. A crisp, consistent icon on every device signals trust and professionalism. Don't let a blurry favicon be the first thing your users see.