Posts tagged with “favicons”

Create Favicons with ImageMagick

As part of my effort of removing most favicon markup from my websites, I use ImageMagick, which can create ICO format favicons from one source of image file, by converting the source image to multiple resolutions in PNG (for higher resolutions) and BMP (for resolutions 192x192 and below) formats.

That said, I noticed that mobile version of browsers may be unable to fetch a favicon that includes more than one image format, so in my ImageMagick command line, I specified the output resolution to 192x192 as the highest, so the favicon will contain only BMP format images.

Get (Most of) Favicons Out of My `head`

I removed the markup and unnecessary assets for my websites' default favicon from the HTML <head> tag, after learning more about favicons from Get out of my <head>'s guide, "Zero byte favicon markup".

The only pages where I still add a favicon markup are my shrine pages on the main site and my individual fanlistings, where I use icons relevant to the page's topic as the favicon.